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Visit Grillental, Namibia
The old railway siding of Grasplatz started in 1906. Shifting sand dunes made it necessary for teams of workers to clear the tracks on a daily basis. Settlements that lie abandoned in the Sperrgebiet and can be visited only on an organised tour. -
Visit Grytviken & King Edward Cove, South Georgia Island
Grytviken is the principal settlement in the British territory of South Georgia in the South Atlantic. It was so named in 1902 by the Swedish surveyor Johan Gunnar Andersson who found old English try pots used to render seal oil at the site. It is the best harbour on the island, consisting of a bay (King Edward Cove) within a bay (Cumberland East Bay). The site is qui... -
See Halloran Springs, California
Halloran Springs is located on Interstate 15 between Baker, California and Las Vegas, Nevada approximately 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Baker. As of the end of year 2014, the human population of Halloran Springs is one. In 2017, there does not appear to be any more residents and Halloran Springs, along with nearby Halloran Summit, can be classified as ghost towns. -
Visit Hamilton, Nevada
Hamilton is an abandoned mining town located in the White Pine Range, in western White Pine County, Nevada, United States. Hamilton appeared after the discovery of rich silver ore in the area. The first settlers found shelter in local caves, which were numerous. By May 1868, the settlement, then known as "Cave City" was formed. The 1967 episode "Solid Foundation" of t... -
Visit Harrisburg, Utah
Harrisburg is a ghost town in Washington County, Utah, United States. Established as Harrisville in 1859, the town was flooded by the Virgin River in 1862, causing the residents to move farther up Quail Creek. Soon after, the town's name was changed to Harrisburg. By 1868, 200 people lived in Harrisburg; however, over the course of the next few years, floods, Native A... -
Visit Hart, California
Hart was a short-lived gold mining town located in the Mojave desert, in San Bernardino County, California. It existed between 1908 and 1915, and was located on the northeastern edge of Lanfair Valley near the New York Mountains. The area is now in the Mojave National Preserve, directed by the National Park Service. In late 1907, while a depression gripped the nation,... -
Visit Hashima Island (Gunkanjima "Battleship Island"), Japan (UNESCO Site)
Hashima Island (commonly called Gunkanjima; meaning Battleship Island), is an abandoned island lying about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the city of Nagasaki, in southern Japan. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture. The island's most notable features are the abandoned and undisturbed concrete apartment buildings and the surrounding sea wall. The ... -
Visit Henson (Ute-Ulay Mine), Engineer Pass Road, Colorado
Henson is a ghost town in Hinsdale County, Colorado, United States. Its elevation is 9,235 feet (2,815 m). Henson's name has historically been spelled several different ways, including Hansen, Hanson, Hensen, and Honsen; the Board on Geographic Names officially supported the current spelling in 1896. Henson was named for Henson Creek, which was named for a pioneer set... -
Visit Hillsboro (Cedarvale), Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Montana
Cedarvale, also known as Hillsboro Ranch, was a dude ranch and working ranch in Carbon County, southern Montana, United States. The ranch was established about 1903 by prospector Grosvener W. Barry on the South Fork Trail Creek. Barry used the ranch as a home for his family and as a base for his mining ventures, all of which failed. His most lucrative venture was the ... -
Visit Hot Springs, Texas
Hot Springs, also known as Boquillas Hot Springs, is a former resort in what is now Big Bend National Park in Texas. They were developed by J.O. Langford from 1909. Langford was a Misssissippi native who had contracted malaria as a child. Searching for a cure, he heard of reputedly curative hot springs on the Rio Grande while visiting Alpine, Texas. Langford made a ho... -
Visit Houtouwan, Shengshan Island, China
Shengshan Island, also called Houtouwan, was a fishing village located just 40 miles east of Shanghai, China. The island was once home to more than 2,000 fishermen among other residents, but was abandoned in the early 1990s. Today the island is only home to a handful of people, yet is a popular tourist attraction. Reasons for the near total abandonment of the island i... -
See Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works, Chile (UNESCO site)
Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works are two former saltpeter refineries located in northern Chile. Humberstone and Santa Laura works contain over 200 former saltpeter works where workers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia lived in company towns and forged a distinctive communal pampinos culture. That culture is manifest in their rich language, creativity, and solida... -
Explore Indian Key Historic State Park, Florida
Indian Key Historic State Park is an island within the Florida State Park system located just a few hundred yards southeast of U.S. 1 within the Florida Keys. The island was briefly inhabited in the middle of the 19th century, but is now an uninhabited ghost town. It is frequently visited by tourists, and is the subject of an archaeological project to uncover the hist... -
Visit Inneston Gypsum Complex, Innes National Park, South Australia
Inneston was gypsum mining town now a ghost town. The ruins of the stables used for the horses which pulled the trains to sTenhouse Bay. The town closed 1930 and is now in Innes National Park. The Inneston Gypsum Complex and the Stenhouse Bay Jetty are associated with the mining of gypsum at the former town of Inneston and Stenhouse Bay are listed on the South Austr... -
Visit Ione, Nevada
Ione, Nevada, is a ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, located approximately 23 miles east of Gabbs, Nevada. Ione came into existence in November 1863 after silver was discovered by one Mr. P. A. Havens in the Shoshone Range. While most of the mining in the area (the Union Mining District) was closer to communities such as Union and Grantsville, Ione developed as a t...
