Sister Rachel Denton, a former nun and teacher, has been living in solitude in a small English town since 2006. She has pledged to live as a hermit for the rest of her life, though she ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brent Underwood about his experience moving to a Californian ghost town ...

For a vacation to Italy, Ramy Awad wanted an adventure. So he picked Fossa, a town deep in the middle of the country that was abandoned after a 2009 earthquake. But things quickly went sideways ...

Bodie, California Nestled in the heart of California, Bodie once thrived as a bustling gold-mining town during the late 1800s ...

Only around 200 people still live in and around the area, embracing the isolation of one of the most remote ghost towns in the world. Video by Matt Dworzańczyk The Erlitou site, dating back to ...

People living in a historic Welsh village nestled ... turning the village into “a bit of a ghost town”. “No one was forced out but some people just could not afford the new rent,” he ...

Take a step back in time while visiting these historic – and slightly spooky – ghost towns. While the term "ghost town" may sound like a village haunted by spirits, it actually refers to an ...

Ghost towns are both eerie reminders of what once was and useful demonstrations of how the Earth moves on without us. Filmmaker Alexander Trowbridge reflects on nature taking over after ...