Walking through empty streets where laughter once filled the air feels deeply unsettling. These abandoned places tell stories of dreams that crumbled, disasters that changed everything, and ...

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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, ...

Some cities are ramping up efforts to ticket and tow vehicles that shelter homeless Californians. As RV rows grow, cities are targeting people living in vehicles, issuing tickets and towing under ...

Throughout human history, cities have been abandoned or reclaimed by nature. Sometimes people rediscover these cities using technology or by a stroke of luck. These five cities, buried under rock, ice ...

Most of the 220 residents in the small Oregon Outback town of Paisley have a story to tell about Dennis O’Leary, who works ...

Few cities have experienced a sharper economic change of fortune than Detroit. It was one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation between 1900 and 1950. In the nearly 75 years since then, it has ...

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After months of growing concerns, abandoned and rundown RVs parked along a Kennewick street were removed last week. It is unclear how many of the RVs were occupied, but complaints over debris being ...

There’s a strange but alarming genre of local news story that keeps popping up: abandoned house fires. During the winter, these vacant homes are an increased fire threat to the community and ...