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After the death of Stalin in 1953 and subsequent closure of the gulags, many of the former prisoners stayed on in the town to ...

Abandoned streets, forgotten storefronts, and the feeling that time just stopped. These ghost towns are essentially ... one of the busiest industrial cities in the country. When manufacturing ...

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Some were abandoned and left to the desert ... hoping to secure their fortune. New towns and cities were quickly founded with hotels, saloons, general stores, pool halls, newspapers, and anything ...

Take a step back in time while visiting these historic – and slightly spooky – ghost towns. While the term "ghost town" may sound like a village haunted by spirits, it actually refers to an ...

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