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

Disused building in the self-proclaimed ghost town of Cook, South Australia. (Image: John Darrington/Wikimedia) Connected to Eyre Highway by 100km of dirt road, Cook’s current population can be ...

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.

I wandered through the 13-acre ghost town in Queensland, Australia. I was amazed by the abandoned castle and even more impressed by the creator's dreams. After two days on Australia's Great ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Despite its deadly history, visitors continue to travel to the ghost town of Wittenoom. By Yan Zhuang The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email.