In our busy world today, it's hard to imagine that ghost towns exist, but there are plenty of abandoned towns even in the UK, that time has left behind.
From eerie haunted villages in California that previously attracted thousands of gold miners, to a fake UK villages designed to train the British Army to fight German soldiers, there are some incredible empty settlements across the globe.
Today, many are only attractive to ghost hunters or photographers, with some sites left totally abandoned by society. Lots of these eerie spaces have doubled up as filming locations thanks to their scenery, and some have even been listed by UNESCO.
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