An urban explorer has shared an inside glimpse into an eerie Canadian ghost town that was left to rot – and now has less than 10 residents left in its crumbling homes.
Kayville, in Saskatchewan, Canada, was once a bustling village with over 100 citizens and 30 businesses.
But now, the dwindling community is a shell of its former self – with most of its buildings boarded up and its houses abandoned.
A photographer and popular vlogger, named Dave, recently
Europe’s best cities for residents and tourists have been revealed, with each ranked in an annual league table in terms of prosperity, livability and lovability.
The continent’s top destinations were evaluated by Resonance Consultancy, which took factors such as Tripadvisor reviews and education and work opportunities into account, as well as dozens of other metrics.
The report looked at more than 180 cities with populations of more than 500,000, in order to identify the Top 100 places to live,
A tight-knit community, no rules, junk fashioned into houses and wacky pieces of art and, in the summer, unbearable heat: welcome to America’s Slab City.
An eye-opening documentary takes viewers into the heart of alternative, off-grid encampment in the heart of the California desert about 100 miles northeast of San Diego, with its residents speaking out about what inspired them to make it their home.
Filmmaker Ryan Twomey said he had ‘always been interested’ in Slab City – which he
The first thing Pepper told me was that he was running out of battery. “He’s got about 15 minutes before he dies,” Emanuel Nunez Sardinha, a Ph.D. candidate in robotics at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, told me. That turned out to be plenty. Sardinha greeted Pepper; then I did. I asked Pepper how he was doing, to which he replied, “How are you doing?” Then Sardinha resumed telling me about the sorts of things Pepper, a friendly, wide-eyed robot designed to
Wreckage of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed last February in East Palestine, Ohio, dispersing toxic chemicals far and wide. Gene J. Puskar / AP
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On March 20, 2023, Hilary Flint uploaded a new video to her TikTok account. The clip starts with a close-up of her face, her cheeks flushed and her gaze trained on the camera. The
According to information filed at Companies House, 14 cattle and buffalo-rearing companies — and one raising swine — have set up shop at her home.
Michelle Goosey was confused when post addressed to Chinese and Japanese nationals started to arrive at her property on a quiet enclave in Swansea last December.
She opened the first few letters to find they were from Companies House congratulating Ai Matsushika, Mingqin Lin and Jingyun Wu on their new businesses.
The nursing student, 35,
Everyone says Lytton was a beautiful place to live. The small Canadian town sits at the confluence of two rivers and was built on one of the oldest continuously inhabited areas in North America—the Nlaka’pamux people have called it home for more than 10,000 years. About 250 people lived in the Lytton of the recent past, on a few cross streets and several dozen lots—you could take it in all in one breath. One blistering June evening in 2021, a
Once a bustling town with more than 4,500 residents and its own newspaper, Jeffrey City in Wyoming is a shadow of its former self with forlorn buildings left to rust and sprigs of grass breaking up tarmacked surfaces – but 24 residents refuse to let it go to ground completely.
The rural enclave started out as a single homestead but after uranium was discovered in the area, a mine opened in 1957 and a drove of workers from across the
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Brenda Whitfield recalled the first major flood at her home in the Eastwick section of Southwest Philadelphia, when Hurricane Floyd filled her ground floor with five feet of water. “I was scared half to death,” she said of the 1999 storm. “The water was coming, and the next thing I knew my husband was like, ‘Brenda, you got to leave.’” She … Read more
When Jessica Albright returned with her family to their home in East Palestine, Ohio, last month after four months away, she opened the car door and took a deep breath — then stopped and thought: Maybe not too deep. Hauling suitcases up the steps, she tried to discern whether the acrid scent in the air had lessened.
The mother of three could not be certain — of the smell, of its effects or of the correct next steps for
