A Google Street View car has been allowed into an abandoned town in the Fukushima exclusion zone. The images allow a "virtual homecoming" to the town for the 21,000 residents displaced by the tsunami and nuclear meltdown two years ago.

Two years after the Libyan revolution began, tens of thousands of Taworghans are scattered around the country, shunned and unable to return home. Former residents of the black-majority city say they are being harshly punished for the war crimes of...

Vast new cities of apartments and shops are being built across China at a rate of ten a year, but they remain almost completely uninhabited ghost towns. It’s all part of the government’s efforts to keep the economy booming, and there a...

Most of Centralia, Pennsylvania was demolished in the 1980s after a slow-burning fire that began in 1962 spread to an underground network of coal mines. Only a handful of people remain now, resisting the state's efforts to help them leave, even th...

Muammar Gaddafi may be gone, but Libya is now a country in chaos. Rebel groups flush with weapons are taking the law into their own hands, persecuting and torturing those thought to have been allied to Gaddafi's regime. Many of the persecuted are ...