cidade fantasma

Science and Technology

Ghost town of 4,000 residents, abandoned after the collapse of an iron mine, now becomes a drone training field for police, rescue, and emergency teams.

Noel Budeguer 19/06/2026 at 14:14

Interesting facts

What is hidden at the bottom of Lake Paranoá is impressive: an entire village with houses, objects, and cars has remained submerged since 1959 in Brasília.

Caio Aviz 28/04/2026 at 17:58

Interesting facts

Neat streets, empty houses, and vegetation swallowing everything: the ghost town that was once alive, but 15 years later still tries to be reborn.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 24/03/2026 at 11:01

Interesting facts

Ghost Town With 540 Houses Ready for 2,000 People Rotting for 10 Years Becomes a Den of Bats and R$ 50 Million Scrap Metal, While City Hall Promises to Resurrect Abandoned Neighborhood by 2028

Carla Teles 07/03/2026 at 17:01

Interesting facts

The Greatest Failure of the United States on Brazilian Soil: Discover the Ghost Town of the Amazon, Founded in 1928 by an American Billionaire Obsessed with Building a Perfect Utopia in Brazil and Now Only Surviving as a Cemetery of Forgotten Ruins

Ana Alice 19/02/2026 at 14:01

Interesting facts

After A Billion-Dollar Investment of Over $100 Billion Planned to House 700,000 People on Artificial Islands Next to Singapore, The Futuristic Megacity Forest City in Malaysia Remains Underutilized, Completing Only About 15% of The Project and Now Trying to Reinvent Itself as A Special Financial Zone Amid Almost Empty Buildings and Economic Challenges

Valdemar Medeiros 10/02/2026 at 15:23

Interesting facts

With Over 50 Million Empty Apartments and Entire Neighborhoods Planned for Millions of Residents Who Never Arrived, Districts Like Kangbashi (Ordos), Yujiapu (Tianjin), and New Urban Centers in Guiyang Have Become the Most Extreme Portraits of China’s So-Called “Ghost Cities” After Decades of Overbuilding

Valdemar Medeiros 06/02/2026 at 18:41

Construction

China Challenged the Unlikely by Investing Billions of Dollars to Build an Entire City in the Gobi Desert, Urbanizing Over 350 Square Kilometers with Monumental Avenues, Skyscrapers, and Infrastructure Designed for Over 1 Million Inhabitants; But It Ended Up Becoming a ‘Ghost City’

Valdemar Medeiros 20/12/2025 at 19:55

Interesting facts

From Dream Residential Complex With 274 Buildings, Giant Hotel, and Beaches to Ghost Town Marked by Abandonment, Ruins, and Wild Beaches

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 19/12/2025 at 09:19

Industry

This Was the Industrial Hub of Nitrate That Helped Chile Dominate Up to 80% of the World Nitrate Market, Spurred Millions of Tons Exported by Railway, and, After the Sector’s Collapse, Became a Ghost Town

Valdemar Medeiros 18/12/2025 at 13:48

Interesting facts

The City 430 Feet Below Sea Level, Where Almost No One Visits, But Has Produced 51,000 Metric Tons of Potassium, Became a Ghost Town, Operated an International Railway, and Marked the Historic Limit of Human Occupation

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 15/12/2025 at 16:17

Industry

The Fascinating American Ghost Town in the Brazilian Forest Created in 1928, with Hospital, Golf Course, and Industrial Sheds, That Holds a Forgotten Past of Americans in a Failed Mega Project That Became an Open-Air Museum

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 15/12/2025 at 06:45