Tales of ghost towns offer us then cautionary lessons for our own age: The fortunes of today may be fleeting, and tomorrow is never promised. ... Delaware County’s archetypal ghost town.

Many towns have turned into ghost towns because they ran out of coal to mine, but in Kolmanskop’s case, it was diamonds. By 1912, the town was producing nearly 12% of the world’s total diamond ...

Ghost towns and villages surround Vorkuta in Russia’s bitter Arctic north, a legacy of its time as a booming coal mine. The coal here was once mined by prisoners at the area’s cruel and ...

Ghost towns and villages surround Vorkuta in Russia's bitter Arctic north, a legacy of its time as a booming coal mine. The coal here was once mined by prisoners at the area's cruel and infamous ...

Video above: A look inside Bodie, CaliforniaOnce thriving spots, these villages, towns and cities now stand abandoned. Their empty buildings, streets and even cars left for nature to reclaim over ...