WebUrbanist reminds me of
Gunkanjima off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan. In the American West there were mining Ghost Towns; this is an entire Ghost Island!
"This decrepit collection of concrete [...] Gunkanjima, or ‘Battleship Island,’ is the nickname for Hashima Island, a dense abandoned metropolis once packed with 5,259 people. It started as a small reef, but when coal was discovered there in the 1800s, it was quickly developed and expanded. It was used as a mine from 1887 to 1974 and its concrete architecture was designed to withstand typhoons. The switch from coal to petroleum in Japan led the mine to close."
![http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashima_Island](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHjnoJqYzzvIFRTmKiAyn2nbEvwNP7F5EQkNWbsuYehE-v_PP2u9T5Zrikxi_dhn6vdg7BnAWCsndgE4FkzkMzw-4qO6eIV13B67xb4oSkcUpWNDre6y64xsRcUgmzARsnJleA2Gthc7c/s320/800px-Battle-Ship_Island_Nagasaki_Japan.jpg)
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