A block of flats opens up like a diseased mouth to reveal brown stains, black holes and rot. Railings on rancid concrete walkways echo eerily with shouts, children's laughter and barking dogs. In the ...

When you travel to an abandoned place, it’s important to remember that people left these towns for a reason. It could be due ...

Few people cared about the derelict Japanese island of Hashima until 2012, when its crumbling piers and abandoned apartment buildings were used as a backdrop for the secret island in the James Bond ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Battleship Island is just a nickname though – the island’s real name is Hashima Island, and it was a coal mining island. It was ...

Hashima Island, nicknamed Gunkanjima, lent itself as a location for the 007 film Skyfall after producers were enticed by its sinister past. After being left to rot for 40 years, the dilapidated ...

Few people cared about the derelict Japanese island of Hashima until 2012, when its crumbling piers and abandoned apartment buildings were used as a backdrop for the secret island in the James Bond ...

Nine miles off the Japanese coast near Nagasaki lies Hashima Island, known to be one of the world's spookiest locations. The history of the island is dark and haunting as hundreds of workers faced a ...

AN EERIE island with a dark past of slavery is said to be the final resting place of up to 1,300 abused civilians and prisoners of war. Hashima Island, abandoned for 40 years and now deemed too ...

A TINY island off the coast of Japan, shaped like a battleship and left abandoned for decades, was a living “hell” for its former residents. Thousands of Korean and Chinese prisoners were forced to ...

Those looking for a snapshot of what Earth would look like if humans became extinct can look no further than this eerie abandoned island with a dark history. Lying nine miles off Japan's coast near ...