The town was completely abandoned by 1956 and the desert began to reclaim it. Just off the coast of Nagasaki is Hashima Island, also called “Battleship Island,” a coal-mining location that ...

The Japanese island of Hashima was closed in 1974 and fell into disrepair, but since the 2000s, it has been reborn as a tourist destination. On an island off the coast of Nagasaki, ruins that seem on ...

Hashima Island can only be visited as part ... It's not your average ghost town, as travelers will find a town lined with cobblestone streets, and a castle and monastery amidst remnants of white ...

Once a bustling coal-mining facility, Hashima Island is now an empty ... Today, it's one of the best-preserved ghost towns in the U.S. The abandoned buildings remain frozen in time, with old ...

While other countries have ghost towns, Japan has a whole ghost island! Hashima Island is located nine miles off the coast of Nagasaki. The island was developed by the Mitsubishi company in the ...

Tourists continue to visit this city despite the fact that the region is a ticking time bomb. The Passion of the Christ was also filmed in this abandoned area in a few sequences. Hashima Island ...

A look at some extraordinary ghost towns that were once thriving urban communities. Learn more about these towns including Pripyat, frozen in time after Chernobyl, and Hashima Island.