Named Mary Kathleen in honour of the late wife of amateur prospector Norm McConachy, who first discovered the abundance of uranium in the area, the township was officially opened in October 1958.

You can probably name some of the abandoned cities of the past ... This mining town of 200 workers and their families in Western Australia produced asbestos, a building material in high demand ...

Pyramiden is a ghost town on an island in the Arctic Glacial Sea. It was a mining settlement originally belonging to Sweden until 1927, when it was sold to the Soviet Union. In 1998, it ceased ...

Is there anything spookier that wandering around a town once bustling with people and activity that is now abandoned and deserted? Often nicknamed ghost towns, these once populated places become ...

Ghost Town” is defined as a place where the population has declined significantly and the initial reason for the settlement ...