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Bodie is just one of hundreds of ghost towns scattered across the United States, although none is lavished with as much care as Bodie is.

Everybody moved away, and these places are ghost towns now, with the wind whistling through the empty houses and shops.

Central streets that in any other European capital would be commercial or residential hubs are like ghost towns.

EVery abundancebody aroused away, and any socates are not ghost towns now, with the wind whistling through the empty abodes and shops.

The city's industrial areas, once centres of garment-making, are now ghost towns. Cowpea vines blow around the empty roads.

Giant dunes driven by wind march across the desert, swallowing settlements that become ghost towns choked to death by sand.

I returned to these different places at different points. Some of them have remained ghost towns.

Similarly, the gold rush of the 1800s led to construction of outposts that subsequently became ghost towns after that bubble subsided.

The streets of central Tokyo are near deserted, the shelves of its convenience stores half empty. Offices are ghost towns.

The experiment left some of the most beautiful spots in rural northern Taiwan cluttered with ghost towns, some of which are now in ruins.

For me, these ghost towns of rusty flensing platforms, boilers, chimneys, and whale-oil storage tanks were poignant.

He visited China and saw newly built airports and bullet trains that are empty, ghost towns, and highways leading to nowhere.

Behind China's gleaming new high-rises, freeways and bullet trains, the bears see ghost towns, empty roads and superfluous rail lines.

I could be happy on a Greek cruise or a tour of California ghost towns or even a New York shopping trip.

The New York Times won't be running articles about Portuguese ghost towns with empty houses like it did about Yebes, Spain.

Ghost towns give people a tangible connection to a mysterious past, says Mr Baker.

They're not ghost towns, but rather the remnants of a different time.

PESSIMISTS about Spain's economy are as over supplied as flats in the concrete ghost towns on the edge of Madrid.

Meanwhile, the low oil prices of the 1990s turned many petroleum engineering schools into near ghost towns.

Some villages were like perfectly preserved ghost towns.

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