Exploring the world's most captivating abandoned places offers a unique glimpse into history, culture, and the passage of ...

The Japanese island of Hashima was closed in 1974 and fell into disrepair, but since the 2000s, it has been reborn as a tourist destination. On an island off the coast of Nagasaki, ruins that seem ...

The government has expressed deep regret over Japan not implementing follow-up measures after listing the latter's modern industrial sites, including Hashima (Battleship) Island, on the list of UNESCO ...

Hashima Island, Japan Kelly.Lam / Shutterstock.com Just off the coast of Nagasaki is Hashima Island, also called “Battleship Island,” a coal-mining location that grew into a small city of ...

Thomas Jonglez, founder of the publishing house bearing his name, curates the 10 most photogenic sites from his label’s latest compendium of urbex photography, ‘The Atlas of Abandoned Places.’ The ...

It was a different kind of island getaway. Scientists were intrigued after NASA satellites spotted a mysterious “ghost island” that formed and then disappeared just as quickly. The phantom ...

Eagle-eyed geologist Mark Tingay recently noticed the emergence of a ‘ghost island’ in November of 2024, caused by a submarine mud volcano called Kumani Bank. Satellites show that the island ...

A series of images from NASA's Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites have captured the island's appearance in the sea and its near-complete disappearance by the end of the following year. Satellite ...

This is hardly the first time the ghost island of the Kumani Bank has appeared and disappeared. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of ...

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Defying expectations so far, the dry surface in Galle has not gone wild and Sri Lanka’s top-order capitalised with opener... US President Donald Trump has restated a vision in which the US would take ...