On a trip to Australia, I visited Paronella Park, a property with abandoned castles and structures. I also spent a night in one of the property's 100-square-foot tiny homes.

From shadows in the windows, to ghost dogs roaming the graveyard, this Halloween, Woman's Day takes a trip to Australia's most haunted town.

The adult circus Spiegelworld, led by Australian founder Ross Mollison, bought the 80-acre town of Nipton for $2.5 million with the vision of building a “circus village.” ...

It's not the only ghost town on Australian maps. Cook, in far western South Australia, was a railway town that serviced the Trans-Australian Railway and once boasted a hospital and school.

A woman with long ties to a faded gold rush town has moved in to help preserve its history for generations to come.

Victoria and Western Australia's ghost towns often rose and fell with those states' gold mining fortunes. In New South Wales and Queensland, railways were the common denominator.