We bought our second abandoned house, around the corner from the guesthouse ... possible to do this in the United States. Ōmishima Island felt like home from the moment we arrived.

By the 1950s, however, the island could no longer compete with the economic opportunities offered by the mainland. Gradually, Gola’s families stripped their houses, boarded their boats and ...

Hashima Island in the Nagasaki Prefecture ... Today, the battleship-shaped land mass sits completely abandoned on westcoast Japan - with tourists drawn from far and wide to explore its eerie ...

Deemed ineffective and too costly, the project was abandoned. The Inner Trial Bank is barely recognisable as an island now as the saltmarsh has formed around it. "The Trial Banks are within the ...