Season 5 ~ Episode #125 - - - 4 Coolest Ghost Towns On Earth

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Permalink Reply by Jenn (Epimeliad) on July 2, 2014 at 1:37am

This episode was awesome! Glad to hear that I'm not the only one that loves going into or just looking at abandoned places. ^_^

Permalink Reply by Lilian Brandon (Tachyonic Raven) on July 3, 2014 at 2:50pm

The fact that Google sent in a street view backpacker to that Japanese island just so people can go on a free virtual tour is sooooo cool!

K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on July 7, 2014 at 12:36pm

Ran across this one while viewing some of Jason Inman's videos on his Jawiin channel . . . it was a suggested link provided by YouTube for his "The Real Smallville (Smallest Town in America)" video . . .

 

The town of Kitsault, British Columbia, Canada now has a website to promote the new owner's dream and progress to repopulate it in the near future:  http://www.kitsault.com/index.html

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsault

Kitsault was established in 1979 as the home community to a molybdenum mine run by the Phelps Dodge corporation of the United States. The community was designed for 1,200 residents and included a shopping mall, restaurant, swimming pool and bowling alley. In 1982, however, prices for molybdenum crashed and the entire community was evacuated after just 18 months of residence.

In 2004, the ghost town was bought by Indo-American businessman Krishnan Suthanthiran for $7 million.

 

K-ModPermalink Reply by Victoria (Centauromadoose) on July 7, 2014 at 9:46pm

I really love ruins, mostly fed by my fascination with ancient Greek architecture (which are all in the form of ruins nowadays). I went to Greece for a month while I was still in college, and my favorite place was the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. Most of the ancient ruins are roped off now so people can't walk into them, but at the Temple of Zeus you can walk (and touch, and climb!) among the fallen columns and see the interior stonework. Really amazing.