List of ghost towns

The following is a partial list of ghost towns:

Australia

Broad Arrow, north of Kalgoorlie (Western Australia)
Gwalia, north of Kalgoorlie, and 4 km south of Leonora (Western Australia)
Kanowna, near Kalgoorlie (Western Australia)
Malcolm, east of Leonora (Western Australia)
Moliagul, Victoria, 202 km north west from Melbourne
Maytown, Queensland, in the Palmer River goldfields (Queensland)
Silverton, near Broken Hill, New South Wales
Walhalla, in the Baw Baw mountains (Victoria)
Western Tyers, Victoria
Wittenoom, Western Australia
Nannine, Western Australia
Big Bell, Western Australia

Canada

France

Six of the French villages destroyed in the First World War have never been rebuilt. All are found in the département of Meuse, and were destroyed during the Battle of Verdun in 1916:

Oradour-sur-Glane was destroyed by a Waffen-SS battalion during the Second World War and its population massacred. The village was subsequently rebuilt nearby, but the ruins of the old village have been preserved.

Guyana

Jonestown, created by cult leader Jim Jones. On November 18, 1978, he conducted a mass suicide with his cult, resulting in 913 of the 1,110 inhabitants dead.

India

Old Goa

Iran

Italy

Montserrat

Plymouth
St. Patrick's

Turkmenistan

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Ashopton, Derbyshire (under reservoir)
Derwent, Derbyshire (under reservoir)
Buckenham Tofts, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Dunwich, Suffolk (under the sea)
Hallsands, Devon (destroyed by a storm in 1917)
Imber, Wiltshire (taken over by Army in 1942)
Lynford, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Nether Hambleton, Rutland (under reservoir)
Shipden, Norfolk (under the sea)
Over the Border Middlesbrough, largely abandoned but plans to regerate the area 1
Stanford, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Sturston, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Tottington, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
Tyneham, Dorset (taken over by Army in 1942)
West Tofts, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)