Hashima Island in the Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, was once a thriving arm of the country's industrial revolution - but beneath the veneer of high salaries and economic power, lurked a much darker ...

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 ...

NAGASAKI--Strong winds, heavy rain and the ravages of time have taken a toll on the nation’s oldest reinforced-concrete apartment building on Hashima ... of collapse,” a city official said.

while Detroit’s shattered factories and abandoned neighborhoods stand a stark warning for post-industrial man. Hashima, Japan, is a coal-mining island that was once the most populated city on ...

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.