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Boomtowns to Bust: Cities Lost to Fortune and Failure

Hashima Island, an eerie abandoned industrial island nicknamed Battleship Island, is off the coast of which country?

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Kolmanskop, a ghost town slowly being swallowed by sand dunes, was built during a diamond rush in which African country?

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Which American city, once the car manufacturing capital of the world, became famous in the late 20th century for its widespread urban abandonment?

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The abandoned town of Bodie, one of the best preserved ghost towns in the United States, is located in which state?

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The abandoned Wonderland Amusement Park, a half-built ghost attraction that was never completed, is located near which major Asian city?

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The abandoned mining town of Kennecott sits within which dramatic Alaskan national park?

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The ghost town of Pyramiden, an abandoned Soviet mining settlement, is located in which Arctic territory?

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Which famous American ghost town boomed during the Gold Rush and gave its name to a whole era of lawless frontier culture?

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What industry drove the rapid growth of the ghost town of Bodie, California, once a booming settlement?

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Kolmanskop in Namibia was abandoned in the 1950s when diamond deposits were found in greater quantities where?

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