As the diamond supply dwindled, so the townspeople left in droves with possessions and homes completely abandoned. By 1956, ...

Dubai is one of the most advanced and high-tech cities in the world. But just 90 minutes north lies a look into how different ...

After World War I, the industry began to crumble and the towns were abandoned in the 1960s. For decades, it sat empty except for buildings, equipment, and other remnants of its industrial past.

An abandoned railway cuts through deep snow and an icy wind rattles the empty window frames of a derelict ... rulers to apartment blocks in larger towns, in what was billed in the 1950s-70s ...