and the island was abandoned. It was deemed a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2015. (Related Article: These Ghost Towns Once Thronged With Life) Carefully strolling through the crumbling high-rises ...

and "Midori nashi shima" (island without green). The austere brutality conjured by these names is reflected in its appearance -- Gunkanjima is a narrow lump of rock covered in the crumbling ...

Since that time the buildings have been slowly crumbling, leaving an astonishing ghost island floating in the ocean. The island was officially closed to all visitors from 1974 to 2009 ...

Ross Island, which lies in the Bay of Bengal, was once the site of a British penal colony for 200 Indian convicts TAKE a look inside India's eerie "ghost island" where crumbling colonial buildings ...