A marijuana company is turning this 19th century ghost town into a stoner’s paradise

American Green has created the chillest Westworld park yet – by turning an abandoned ghost town from the 19th century into a Marijuana Elysium. An abandoned town called Nipton, which sits in the middle of nowhere, in the state of…

Brothels, bars and mines- eerie photos of California’s ghost town show us what life was like in the 1800s

BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Once upon a time, a mining town stood strong on the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The town – Bodie, California – was discovered in 1859, and for the next 50 years it was home…

St. Elmo is an American ghost town decaying in the heart of Colorado

BY: SINEAD MULHERN Deep in the Colorado Rockies is the abandoned mining town of St. Elmo. Old wooden sidewalks creak and dance-halls where sounds of lively music and foot stomping used to flood out onto the streets are now silent,…

Welcome to this Japanese scarecrow town where dolls outnumber living people three to one

BY: SINEAD MULHERN A classroom is clean but bleak. Students slump in chairs. A mum teacher delivers no lesson. It’s not a lively scene, their insides are straw. Head to a bus stop, fruit stall or lonely corner in the…