Once a thriving anthracite coal town, Centralia slowly unraveled after a landfill fire ignited its labyrinth of mining ...

Abandoned towns or ghost towns are powerful reminders of America’s frontier past, mining booms, industrial failures, and ...

Canada's village of Cumberland has began using abandoned coal mines to supply clean geothermal heating and cooling for homes ...

For a long time, ghost towns were the forgotten corners of the map. Abandoned mines, empty... The post How Ghost Towns Are Finding New Life As Tourism Experiments appeared first on The Daily Dive.

Cumberland, B.C. was built on coal mining—both literally and practically. Thousands of workers were employed and millions of ...

Around a quarter of UK homes lie on disused coalfields. These abandoned coal mines are flooded with water that is naturally ...

Not every town gets to stick around forever. Some start with a bang—gold rush fever, a mining boom, a railroad deal—only to fizzle out just as fast. Others fade slowly, little by little, until one day ...

In a small Appalachian community whose first settlers arrived in 1830, a place transformed by mining in the decades that followed, David Butcher is leading an ambitious effort to reclaim both history ...

Image Credit: Cavan-Images / Shutterstock. America’s ghost towns are eerie time capsules scattered across the country, each holding a story of ambition, struggle, and sometimes sudden abandonment.

When Emmanuel Siyabonga was a boy, he wasn't fussy about the type of job he wanted when he grew up. Other boys dreamed of being footballers, doctors, soldiers. All Siyabonga wanted, he says, was a job ...