Montserrat is a tiny overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. It was colonized by Irish settlers in 1632, earning it the nickname
Located just nine miles off Nagasaki, Hashima Island became a hub for the Japanese coal industry when Mitsubishi bought the island in 1890 and began extracting coal from undersea mine
Life was never particularly easy in the southern Italian town of Craco, surrounded by sun-baked badlands a little way south of Matera
In its heyday in the early 20th century, Grytviken on the subantarctic island of South Georgia was an extremely gruesome place.
Wittenoom was once a thriving mining town in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, about a 15-hour drive northeast from Perth
At the height of the mining boom there were over 150 patented mine claims in the St Elmo area. But as those claims were exhausted, the population dwindled.
For a time between the 1880s and 1930s the mining town of Humberstone, high in the Atacama Desert in Chile, was the saltpeter capital of the world.
With its golden beaches, sparkling waters, and buzzing nightlife, the dazzling beach resort of Varosha in Cyprus was once known as 'the Las Vegas of the Mediterranean.'