It symbolizes resilience, artistic innovation, and a unique cultural rebirth, rising from its once-derelict structures and abandoned streets.

After facing discrimination, the settlers relocated to the desert, building a town called Iosepa. It was abandoned 30 years later. I toured the area and was amazed by the Hawaiians' resilience.

A lighthouse in the middle of the desert sounds like an urban myth, but it does exist. Constructed as an art piece, it's a ...

One musician envisions desert-inspired art and music as the town’s focus ... While this isn’t the first ghost town to hit the market, it certainly is the cheapest. A ghost town in Arizona ...

They break at the entrance to Eagle Mountain, a ghost town in the California desert that has attracted ... the students and four gallons of yellow paint. The town came to reflect the clear-eyed ...

A unique and eery ghost town in California's desert has just been purchased by a mysterious buyer for a whopping $22.5million - sparking curiosity about its potential revival. Eagle Mountain ...

Little remained of Lobo, an abandoned desert town some 60 miles northwest of art oasis Marfa: just an old grocery store, a long-vacant motel and a boarded-up gas station. The sellers, a group of ...

Once a booming diamond mining town, Kolmanskop now stands as an eerie testament to the fleeting nature of prosperity. Abandoned to the desert sands, the ghost town has gained a reputation as a ...

An abandoned town of half-built villas in northeastern China has found a new lease of life — farmers have occupied it and started using the deserted land to grow crops and rear cattle ...

(Town listing / Courtesy) Lobo is a tiny windswept ghost town in West Texas, some 60 miles northwest of art mecca Marfa ... want to turn Lobo into a new desert destination spot, Bardorff ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Is there anything spookier that wandering around a town once bustling with people and activity that is now abandoned ...