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Malaysia's $100 billion ghost town is good for at least one thing: filming documentaries and shows like Netflix's 'The Mole'
Embattled Forest City is a backdrop for a handful of reality shows and documentaries.
Shubhangi Goel
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I visited a ghost town in the middle of Utah's desert that was home to Hawaiian settlers. Take a look around.
I've wandered through one in Colorado that was once home to a historic Black agricultural community…
Monica Humphries
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Malaysia's $100 billion ghost town really wants to draw in tourists. It's not working.
Forest City, a $100 billion luxury development in Malaysia, is banking on tourism to shed its "ghos…
Marielle Descalsota
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This man bought a ghost town and lived alone for 3 years. These are the 5 biggest struggles he's faced.
Brent Underwood bought the ghost town of Cerro Gordo and lived alone for three years. Here are the …
Polly Thompson
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I spent a night in one of the empty apartments in Malaysia's $100 billion ghost town, and I can see why very few people want to live there
I first visited Forest City in May 2022, and it was a ghost town. I found towering apartment buildi…
Marielle Descalsota
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I bought a California ghost town for $1.4 million. Living here gets lonely — but I've found my purpose.
Brent Underwood says restoring Cerro Gordo, an abandoned California mining town he purchased, has c…
Polly Thompson
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I visited Mark Cuban's Texas ghost town, and 'Mustang' was more barren and mysterious than I ever imagined
I did some reading. Cuban bought Mustang from principal owner Marty Price, a Dallas attorney and de…
Alcynna Lloyd
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I explored an Arizona ghost town with an abandoned dentist office, schoolhouse, and laundromat. The tourist spot felt like stepping back in time.
These places fascinate me. Whether it's exploring an abandoned castle in the Australian jungle or o…
Monica Humphries
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Italian officials will pay up to $32,000 for you to move to Tuscany — but there's a catch
Italy's new "residency in the mountains" program will pay people up to $32,000 to relocate to rural…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Russians celebrated capturing a ghost town in Ukraine. Photos show how the war ruined it.
"Our troops are in the administrative borders of Marinka, the battles for the city continue," Oleks…
Lauren Frias
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Japan's glut of abandoned, derelict homes created so many eyesores and safety hazards it's making the property market bleed billions
Japan's empty houses have damaged the prices of homes near them and caused a $25 billion loss in ju…
Aditi Bharade
Check out a ghost town of deserted Chinese mansions
Farmers are growing crops and raising cattle in a "ghost town" built for millionaires. Developers b…
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Check out a ghost town of deserted Chinese mega-villas built for multimillionaires that's now overrun by farmers and left to rot
Farm animals now roam around the decrepit State Guest Mansions, an exclusive real-estate project th…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Japan has a glut of 8.5 million akiya, empty 'ghost houses' left to rot. Now Airbnb wants to fill them with tourists.
Airbnb says it wants to partner with local governments to incentivize homeowners to renovate and tu…
Matthew Loh
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A woman found dead in a church with no blood in her body may have been a TikToker hunting for ghosts, police say
A French woman was found dead in an abandoned church in northern Italy after what appears to have b…
Mikhaila Friel
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See the desert ghost town Israeli soldiers call 'Mini Gaza,' where the Israel Defense Forces train for urban warfare
Israel has given 1.1 million people in northern Gaza 24 hours to evacuate to the southern part of t…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Malaysia might add a casino to boost troubled $100 billion mega-development Forest City
The casino, which would only be the second in Malaysia, could revive the struggling property.
Shubhangi Goel
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I explored a ghost town that was once a religious colony for a post-apocalyptic world. Here's a closer look at the crumbling buildings that remain.
The author visited the ghost town Home of Truth in southeast Utah.Monica Humphries/Insider
Monica Humphries
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I toured an abandoned castle in an overgrown ghost town deep in the Australian rainforest. Take a look around the magical place.
The author at Paronella Park.Monica Humphries/Insider
Monica Humphries
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The city whose 'doom loop' just might be worse than San Francisco's
A vacant St. Louis building that sold for $3.6 million after trading for $205 million at its peak i…