Imagine stepping into a Soviet town frozen in time—located in Norway, just miles from the North Pole. This city was once ...

A GULAG town in the icy tundras now sits frozen in time as it became Russia’s most depressing place. Vorkuta is a cemetery of soulless tower blocks, where homes sell for as little as 1p to th… ...

Less than 4 kilometers from the Russian border, the Kharkiv region town of Vovchansk was liberated during Ukraine's lightning counteroffensive in September. But the largely deserted town is under ...

Key Points Abandoned towns and cities are found all over the world, often as a result of natural disasters, depletion of natural resources, or poor urban planning.

This is how the Russian army left the town of Balakliya in northeastern Ukraine, in a sign of a frantic, chaotic withdrawal as the Ukrainian army closed in during a fast-moving counteroffensive ...

After months of Russian bombardment, the town of Avdiivka in southeastern Ukraine has been reduced to rubble. The fighting remains fierce in the vicinity as Ukrainian forces have dug in to resist ...

An abandoned Russian ghost town, located along a route known as the "road of bones", has an eerie presence. The road was constructed by prisoners who endured horrific conditions in one of Russia's ...

Inside the ghost town abandoned after a blast that can be reached only via 'road of bones' This town was once home to 10,000 people, but its streets now lie empty after a deadly mine blast.

Finland, Minnesota, once bustling, now stands empty with 43 abandoned homes, a reminder of its past tied to a nearby airbase ...

The trees are splintered, the houses wrecked, the surviving civilians live in basements, NATO ammunition has been abandoned - this is the picture shown by footage released by Russia from the ruins ...

The pack of stray dogs -- thin and rain-soaked -- yelped in fear at the roar of incoming Russian artillery fire that echoed off abandoned Soviet-era buildings and an Orthodox church in frontline ...