Once home to 2,000 people, a fishing village in remote China now stands completely empty after its residents started to leave one by one. Now reclaimed by nature, the eerie village looks like a ...

A megacity that was build to tackle China's overpopulation crisis with an investment of $85billion (£68billion) now remains largely empty as young people consider it unappealing. President Xi ...

The world is scattered with the remains of so-called ghost towns, that attract thousands of visitors. Many are abandoned villages or cities, often with substantial visible remains. Crumbling ...

The 'Forest City' in Johor, Malaysia, was meant to be home to one million people, but instead it's largely abandoned.

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It was pretty bad. The ground, table, lights, everything was wobbling,” a woman who is on a business trip in Thailand told CNA.

Offshore wind turbines are pictured in the waters of Laizhou City, East China's Shandong province, Jan 7, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] Erik Solheim, former executive director of the United Nations ...

Marketing for the towering Seascape apartments in downtown Auckand, a block from the waterfront. The builders of Auckland’s abandoned $300 million 57-level Seascape apartment tower have won a ...

The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the next UNESCO World Heritage site. Millions of people converge on Xi ...

Harbin has ignited a fervor for ice and snow tourism on Chinese social media this winter, since the opening of the 41st Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival on Jan 5.[Photo/Xinhua] The craze ...

Under the mayor’s proposal, San Jose would pursue an eminent domain proceeding to gain a court order that would enable the ...