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Visit Kolmanskop, Namibia
Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port town of Lüderitz. It was named after a transport driver named Johnny Coleman who, during a sand storm, abandoned his ox wagon on a small incline opposite the settlement. Once a small but very rich mining village, it is now a popular tourist destination run by... -
Visit Koonalda Homestead, Nullarbor Plain, South Australia
A stop at Koonalda Homestead is worth checking out all the old cars and shearing shed. Great piece of history and a nice place to camp for the night with beautiful stars. The homestead is off the Eyre Hwy, 100 km west of the Nullarbor Roadhouse and 90 km east of Border Village. The old homestead and outbuildings are built mainly from sleepers from the Indian Pacific ... -
See Lake Dolores Waterpark, Newberry Springs, California
Lake Dolores Waterpark is an abandoned waterpark off Interstate 15 in the Mojave Desert in the community of Newberry Springs, California, United States. The waterpark had operated under numerous names in the past, including Lake Dolores, Rock–A–Hoola Waterpark, and Discovery Waterpark. The park was originally designed and built by local businessman Bob Bye... -
Visit Lake Valley, New Mexico
Lake Valley was a silver-mining town in Sierra County, U.S. state of New Mexico. The 'heyday' of the town was from 1881 to 1893. The last resident departed in 1994. The present day ghost town is completely deserted. The townsite of Lake Valley is partly privately owned, and partly owned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which has restricted access to the old buil... -
Visit Leadfield, California
Leadfield was a historic mining town in Inyo County, California. It is now a ghost town and located in Titus Canyon in the Grapevine Mountains, east of Death Valley National Park. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. The remains of the town include a few rusted metal sheds and two locked, abandoned mine shafts, as of 2005. The town is reachable by one-wa... -
Visit L'Île-aux-Marins, France
L'Île-aux-Marins is a small island in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located off the coast of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and was a commune of it until 1945, when it was annexed by the commune of Saint-Pierre. It was settled in 1604 but never reached a population of 200. Uninhabited since 1965 (except some people who live there from May to November), when the last fami... -
Visit Llanelly, Victoria, Australia
The goldmining town of Llanelly was once home to a thriving community of Welsh-speaking migrants. It's locatd between Bendigo and Dunolly, and is 5 km north-east of the town of Tarnagulla. The discovery of gold in these cities in the 1850s caused the area to receive an influx of migrants from all around the world. The village formed in around 1860, and it was given th... -
Visit Llano del Rio, Antelope Valley, California
Llano del Rio was a commune (or "colony") located in what is now Llano, California, east of Palmdale in the Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County. The colony was devised by lawyer and socialist politician Job Harriman after he had failed his bid to become the mayor of Los Angeles in 1911. The colony's land was acquired in 1913 and it was formally launched on May 1, 1914... -
Hike Lonesome Miner Trail (Inyo Mountains), California
The Lonesome Miner Trail is a historic mining trail which is approximately 40.0 miles long. This trail is an amazing historic legacy left by small groups of miners who built trails in the Inyo Mountains starting in the 1860's, and continued intermittently through the depression of the 1930's. Several sites are along the trail: Beveridge is a ghost town in Inyo Cou... -
Visit Lost Burro Mine, Death Valley National Park, California
Lost Burro Mine is a very well preserved ghost town in Death Valley National Park. -
Visit Ludlow, California
Ludlow is a small town in the Mojave Desert on Interstate 40, located in San Bernardino County, California, United States. The older remains of the ghost town are along historic Route 66. By the 1940s, local mining and railway activity had ceased and the town survived supplying the needs of travellers on the National Old Trails Road, renamed to become the legendary Ro... -
Visit Macetown, New Zealand
Macetown is an historic gold mining settlement in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is now uninhabited but has become a tourist attraction. Access to the town is via an unsealed road that heads up the steep-sided Arrow gorge. This can be traversed on foot or by mountain bike, horse or four-wheel-drive vehicles. The road crosses the Arrow River or... -
Visit Mammoth, Utah
Mammoth is an unincorporated community and semi-ghost town in northeastern Juab County, Utah, United States. The town lies in Mammoth Canyon on the west flank of the East Tintic Mountains, approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Mammoth Peak, at an elevation of 6,391 feet (1,948 m). It is about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Eureka and 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the Tintic ... -
Visit Mannahill, South Australia
Mannahill (gazetted as Manna Hill) is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia. Mannahill is in the Northeast Pastoral district and is one of the easternmost settlements in South Australia. At the 2016 census, Mannahill had no people living within its boundaries. Mannahill was located on the stock route that passed from the Barrier Ranges in New ... -
Off-road to Masonic Mining Camp, California
Masonic (formerly Lorena) is a ghost town located about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bridgeport, Mono County, California, USA. The town consists of an upper, middle, and lower town; most of the few ruins remaining are in the middle town. Gold was first discovered in the 1860s, but production ceased near the start of the 20th century. The town's population peaked at a...
