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Lying deep in the African desert sits the colourful and supersaturated hot springs of the world's 'hottest' town.

Namibia, while renowned for its expansive deserts and abundant wildlife, holds a lesser-known yet equally captivating allure: ...

The town was completely abandoned by 1956 and the desert began to reclaim it. Just off the coast of Nagasaki is Hashima Island, also called “Battleship Island,” a coal-mining location that ...

Green Bank, West Virginia, a town in America that houses the biggest telescope in the world, and how the town needs to be ...

A walk through this desert ghost town and you’re met with eerie scenes ... left in droves with possessions and homes completely abandoned. By 1956, Kolmanskop was officially a ghost town as ...

A "confusing" sign may be to blame for a "devastating" loss in business, owners say.

Located in the Atacama Desert, it was a production hub for ... After World War I, the industry began to crumble and the towns were abandoned in the 1960s. For decades, it sat empty except for ...

The strange history of Kolmanskop in Namibia began in 1908 when a railway worker walking in the desert ... deserted. Today it is a tourist attraction, but the dunes are slowly reclaiming the town.

But for these lower North Island towns, it seems an electronic sign could be to blame. The sign, outside Bulls, says State Highway 1 is closed and to use State Highways 49, 4, 47, and 41 instead. But ...