But things changed not too long after. Today, Villa Epecuén can be called the "Atlantis" of Argentina, as it lies abandoned and half swallowed by the lake that was once the resort's selling point.

A former Air Force base responsible for potentially exposing hundreds of thousands to toxic chemicals is now a desolate wasteland that has remained abandoned in California for 32 years.

“The streets of Central Falls have looked like an abandoned wasteland because people are literally afraid to go outside,” Rhode Island Senator Jonathon Acosta said PROVIDENCE — A patient at ...

When the railway closed, the elevated tracks became an abandoned infrastructural wasteland above Chelsea overgrown with wild plants. Many talked of demolishing it for good. Thankfully, efforts by ...

What remains is an abandoned, apocalyptic wasteland similar to the setting of the Fallout games and TV series. The only people that remain are those trying to bring it back from extinction.

What has been dubbed the world’s biggest theme park sits rotting after it was abandoned just one year after its grand opening. With 26 roller coasters once giving families days out they'll never ...

Here’s how it works. Copper mines in Israel's Negev Desert — ancient sites that may have inspired the legend of King Solomon's mines of gold — were abandoned 3,000 years ago, when people ...

had always wanted to take photos of the nuclear wasteland. He captured the eerie sites of an abandoned school, fairground and an abandoned nursery with gas masks that littered the floor.

In 2008, as local environmental restoration efforts began, a long-abandoned mining pit in China's eastern coastal city of ...