With its rich and long history, spanning everything from ancient settlements to the world wars, Great Britain is dotted with ...

One of the most well-maintained mining villages is in Pennsylvania. Visitors can view houses that date to the 1850s and learn ...

As the diamond supply dwindled, so the townspeople left in droves with possessions and homes completely abandoned. By 1956, ...

A long-abandoned mine caused a sinkhole on I-80 last month, highlighting the dangers lurking just beneath the surface across ...

26. While a tragedy that day was averted, sinkholes attributed to abandoned mines have occasionally proven deadly for generations, in New Jersey and elsewhere. In November 1963, a 15-year-old boy ...

This community of about 1,000 was doomed when a garbage fire ignited abandoned coal mines that ran right under the town. Despite every effort to extinguish it, the fire has been burning since 1962.

David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...

Explore Washington State's mysterious past with ghostly tales of abandoned towns. Are you brave enough to visit?

Kennicott in Alaska is a copper mining town which once provided work ... you can take a tour that allows visitors to explore the abandoned town. Decades after local workers left and the settlement ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

Nearly century-old mining structures are close to being removed in Cambria County.Officials with the Cambria County ...