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Abandoned Industrials
2 documented places
Factories, mills, power plants, and industrial complexes abandoned as economies shifted and industries declined.
Documented Industrials
Hashima Island
Once the most densely populated place on Earth, this Japanese island fortress was a coal-mining colony that was completely abandoned overnight in 1974, leaving behind a concrete ghost city.
Nagasaki, Japan
Centralia Underground Fire
A Pennsylvania mining town where an underground coal seam fire has burned since 1962, cracking roads with steam vents and reducing a once-thriving community to fewer than 10 residents.
Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States