The pretty hamlet of Wycoller, which lies four miles east of Colne in Lancashire, is unlike any other in the UK. It was ...

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Across County Durham lie traces of forgotten communities, earthworks, chapel ruins, and quiet fields that once saw medieval life. These deserted medieval villages (DMVs) tell the story of changing ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — Thick roots tumble across a dilapidated house, the snake-like trunks of a banyan tree framing where the front door once stood. Its walls have been hollowed by decades of typhoons, ...

Leigh, known as Leigh Urbex, recently visited Eldon Grove, in the UK. She ventured to the "abandoned street" to have a look around, but was stunned by what she found ...

Olympic host cities spend big on infrastructure, stadiums and villages. But what happens when the Games leave town? In some cases, these world-class facilities are left unused years after medals are ...

UNHCR is alarmed by the fact that abandoned villages in West Darfur are once again being burned to discourage the people who once lived there from returning home. At the end of last week, a resident ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — Surrounded by forest-covered mountains cloaked in mist, a patchwork quilt of green farmland and steel-blue waves breaking on mangrove-strewn mudflats, Lai Chi Wo does not look like ...