1Rosewood
A black community in Rosewood, Florida was burned to the ground in 1923 in a racially motivated attacked. Even today it still remains a ghost town.
2. Gillam, Manitoba is one of the largest cities or towns in Canada by area. The ghost town of Sundance whose purpose was to facilitate the building of the Limestone Generating Station is also within Gillam. Once a busy, fully functioning town, it has since been abandoned and torn down.
3. The capital of Montserrat, a United Kingdom territory has been abandoned since a volcano destroyed it in 1997. It is the only ghost town that is also the capital of a political territory.
4. There is an uninhabited island in Finland called Saaranpaskantamasaari. The name translates to "an island that was shat by Saara (a woman's name)."
5. There is an island in Hawai'i called Kahoolawe (a.k.a. “Target Island”) which was made uninhabitable by over 50 years of bombings.
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6Savage Islands
Portugal has a group of uninhabited islands in the North Atlantic named 'Big Savage' and 'Little Savage.'
7. Poveglia is an uninhabited and supposedly haunted Venetian island which has been in the past been used as a defensive fort, a quarantine station, a confinement area for the sick, and a mental asylum.
8. On the Isles of Scilly, all the uninhabited islands, islets and rocks, and much of the untenanted land on the inhabited islands are managed by the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust, which leases these lands from the Duchy for the rent of one daffodil per year.
9. There is a modern-day ghost town called 'Eagle Mountain' in California. It was created in 1948 as an iron mining town and was deserted in 1983. The town has been featured in Movies and TV shows, and the local high school is still in operation as an elementary school.
10. Holland Island in Maryland which was once home to approximately 300 people, fell victim to erosion, losing shoreline, which forced families on it to move. Parts of the now-abandoned island became completely submerged until one house was left standing. After a storm, it finally collapsed in October 2010.
11New South China Mall
The largest shopping mall in the world is the New South China Mall in Guang Dong Province in China. This 5 million square foot structure can accommodate 2,350 stores and is more than twice the size of Mall of America, but the mall is almost completely deserted and has been classified as a ‘dead mall.’
12. Fort Jefferson which remains abandoned since 1906 is a huge hexagonal fort occupying nearly the entire island in the Dry Tortugas off Florida. Though never finished, it is the largest brick masonry structure in the Americas.
13. Ailsa Craig is an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland. It is one of only two places on earth where granite for curling stones can be quarried.
14. There is a ghost town in California called Bagdad and it currently holds the record for the longest period without rain in the United States.
15. The ghost village of Epecuén in Argentina has only a single inhabitant, Pablo Novak. The once touristic town became uninhabitable after a flood slowly consumed it in 1985. The waters began to recede in 2009 and Novak returned to the home of his youth to live alone with his dogs.
16North Brother Island
There is an uninhabited island in New York City called North Brother Island that has in the past housed a quarantine hospital and a teenage drug rehab center. It is now a bird sanctuary.
17. The town of Times Beach in Missouri was abandoned after its dirt roads were treated with Dioxin, an oily byproduct of Agent Orange and hexachlorophene, in an attempt to control its dust problem. Eventually, the town was purchased with superfunds money to clean up the old town.
18. Hans Island is a tiny uninhabited Arctic island that’s claimed by both Canada and Denmark. Traditionally, Canadian expeditions leave behind a bottle of whiskey for the Danes, while Danish sailors leave Aquavit.
19. After the 1980 film Popeye flopped, the set was abandoned, so the locals of Mellieha, Malta reclaimed it as a Popeye theme park.
20. The island of Cozumel is the largest inhabited island within Mexico and it served as a place of pilgrimage for the Mayans. In 1520, when Spanish settlers brought smallpox with them, the local population went from over 10,000 to just over 300, and by 1600, the island lay entirely abandoned.
21Project Iceworm
US government had a top secret Cold War project named “Iceworm” whose objective was to build nuclear missile sites under the Greenland ice sheet. Abandoned due to ice instability, it was assumed that the chemical and radioactive waste inside it would remain under the ice forever. It is now predicted that this waste will re-enter the environment in 2100.
22. When Cape Cod's village of Long Point, Massachusetts became a ghost town, its residents took their houses with them, by floating them across the harbor.
23. The Isle of Pabbay in the Hebrides was abandoned when every male resident of the island was lost at sea. Another of the Isles had all its sheep washed away by a wave.
24. Buffalo City, North Carolina, the once tight-knit logging boomtown and “moonshine capital” was visited by FDR on a trip to Roanoke. Built-in the middle of nowhere, they relied on alcohol tourism during the 1920s and 30s, but “mysteriously” turned into ghost town after prohibition ended.
25. There is a 'ghost-town' millionaires resort on an island named Varosha in Cyprus. The Turkish military does not allow anyone inside and hasn’t done so for nearly 40 years.
