Battleship Island. It's a fantastic name for an unbelievable place. A place unlike any in the world. A tiny island, once home to 5,259 people with the highest population density in history, abruptly ...

TOKYO >> On an island off the coast of Nagasaki, ruins that seem on the verge of collapse stand clustered behind a high seawall. Though officially known as Hashima, the island is sometimes called ...

GUNKANJIMA, Japan (AP) — Of countless ghostly abandoned factories and mines in Japan, this fortress island near Nagasaki is among the most notorious. It is also a source of national pride. Gunkanjima, ...

Explore popular abandoned sites including an abandoned gun factory in Poland, the home of Bruce Lee in Hong Kong, and Gunkanjima, also known as Battleship Island.

An eerie ghost island just off the coast of a Japanese city known for one of the most devastating events in history has been abandoned for over half a century and is slowly being reclaimed by nature.