Once thriving with mining, farming or railways, it all came to an end in these places. Such is the history of Australia's ...

This ghost town could get a shot at reincarnation. For 70 years, the historic birthplace of Australia’s pearling industry has sat abandoned in a remote northwest corner of the country’s ...

Arltunga, located in the sandy hills 110 kilometres east of Alice Springs, was Central Australia's first official town. The settlement was born from a gold rush in 1887 and hosted up to 300 people.

Australia is already littered with ghost towns: lifeless versions of once-thriving mining communities that withered and died as long ago as the Gold Rush. Locals were devastated when Rio Tinto ...

The adult circus Spiegelworld, led by Australian founder Ross Mollison ... announced recently he’s looking for someone to buy the ghost town for $100,000, provided the buyer appreciates its ...

The grid town now stands derelict in desert dust and mostly dismantled. It is now known as one of Western Australia’s ghost towns – one to visit if you like wandering eerie places. Where ...

The number of vacant homes in regional areas is giving rise to ghost towns ... of short-term rental accommodation in Western Australia. Towns and localities with the highest vacancy rates ...

But in today’s world, we have our own ghost cities ... This mining town of 200 workers and their families in Western Australia produced asbestos, a building material in high demand in the ...

Once a symbol of economic prosperity, Wittenoom, Australia, is now a ghost town, polluted by decades of asbestos mining.Credit... Supported by By Yan Zhuang Photographs and Video by Matthew Abbott ...

Think of “ghost towns” and images of dusty ... She cites recent examples like wildfires in Hawaii, California and Australia, and floods in Bangladesh, as some of the latest triggers for ...