Created by accident and transformed by time, the Salton Sea is one of California’s most surreal landscapes. In this one-day loop, we visit abandoned resort towns, bold desert art, and unexpected ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Atacama is the world's non-polar driest desert. It is also the second overall driest in the world. It is here that travellers will find the starkly beautiful ghost town of Humberstone.

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 ...

A DITCHED ghost town in the middle of the Namibian desert was once full of diamonds but is now full of run down homes, buried knee-deep in the sand. A barren Kolmanskop once had hundreds of German ...

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 ...

(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 ...