1. Japan Hashima Island
Hashima Island is a small island of rocks which only has an area of 15 acres, located off the coast of Nagasaki Japan. In its heyday this island is very important which is a major center of coal mining in Japan nearly a century. The island is located above the coal deposit is large enough.
At first, the island is owned by a family of local residents who began to mine coal there traditionally was then purchased Mistubishi Corporation in 1890 and from that moment the glory of Hashima began. Because the location is quite far about 18 miles from Nagasaki makes Mitsubishi to build houses for the workers rather than having to provide a ferry every day to go home and go to workers. A permanent apartments was built where the families of the workers inhabit a narrow room and had to share a bathroom and kitchen with other families.
Complementary facilities for the area then began to be built like a theater, doctors' offices, restaurants and bars, and the city became congested and the whole complex of the city are connected by underground tunnels, at its peak in 1959 the island of Hashima is the city's most densely populated on earth where inhabited by 5259 souls mean 835 people to an area of 2.5 hectares. Not all workers in Hashima working there of their own volition, the days of World War 2 Japanese government forced Chinese and Korean workers working there, Approximately 122 of the 500 workers from Korea died there between 1939-1945.
After World War 2 the workers in the island got various kinds of luxuries and facilities such as television and radio etc.However in January 1974 in which the use of petroleum as a source of energy is more widely used than coal, Mitsubishi Corp. announced that the mine would be closed and in April 1974 was the last time when the inhabitants of the island were transported by ferry to leave the island.
2. Centralia USA
Centralia is a city that in its heyday inhabited by 3,000 souls which was founded in 1866 as a result of booming coal mines located in the city but the mine also makes the city was destroyed.
In 2005 only 12 people after earlier in 1981 is still inhabited by 1,000 people as a result of the burning of the mine in 1962, this fire occurred because of burning of garbage is done by workers who inadvertently make coal reserves exist under the city on fire, it makes effect central coal reserves there to be burned and very hard to put out, all techniques have been carried out and the cost of invaluable numbers have been issued but are not able to extinguish the fire in the coal deposits are so big.
In 1981 after 20 years of fire continued to burn, child fall into a hole that is open, but he managed to survive the gaping hole as deep as 150m by holding on to the roots, these holes emit poisonous carbon monoxide gas. The federal government spent 42 million dollars to move the rest of the population surviving in 1982 and officially closed the city, only 20 residents who live as citizens of the wild in a former house that was once officially belongs to them, the main line out and into the city were closed because the lands around the city open and emit white poisonous gas. And most of the houses and buildings are burned by fire.
3. Kadykchan, Russia
Kadykchan is a city that was built after World War 2 as a city for the coal miners and their families, in 1996 six workers were killed by an explosion in a coal mining and to avoid the dangers of mines were closed and 12,000 people who inhabit the city The evacuated that make the city desolate and uninhabited.
4. Prypiat, Ukraine
On April 26, 1986 explosion at reactor No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine which was then still be a state of the Soviet Union. The incident is the worst incident in the history in the processing of nuclear power sources into electrical power. The effects of radiation resulting from the explosion spread throughout Ukraine and led to thousands of deaths in Ukraine and Russia and the effects of radiation spread to the entire country by 2006.
The Government of the Soviet Union heavily criticized for not moving quickly to warn citizens about the dangers of this, although the towns closest to the reactor evacuated population and establish the zone 18 miles as the exclusive zone are forbidden to enter. Prypiat is a town which is only 3 miles from the Chernobyl reactor and its inhabitants are mostly workers in the reactor, about 44,000 souls inhabit this town and only 60 hours after the incident the residents of the city in the evacuation
Prypiat territory designated as unsafe for occupancy and it takes hundreds of years to safely habitable by humans.
5. Humberstone and Santa Laura, Chile
City Humberstone in Chile established in 1862 as the headquarters of the mining nitrate La Palma. In 1925 the town changed its name to Humberstone named after a British mining manager who has made the town prosper. Both Humberstone and Santa Laura neighboring city experienced a boom and prosperity because they nitrate production, both cities heyday in the era of the 30s and 40s where besides a center of mining is also a processing center nitrate
Nitrate at that time is an important element in the process of making fertilizer, but since the late '30s the industry has also begun to make a replacement in the form of cheaper synthetic nitrate. Due to the increased production of cheaper synthetic nitrate create demand for nitrate decreased and sooner or later the glory of these two cities are faded, until three decades later that in 1961 formally nitrate mining offices in the city were closed. What remains from the glory of these two cities are just a pile of sand, desert and schools and museums that have been abandoned, while it can still be seen up to now houses the workers and the machines that are processing in factories that have been abandoned.
There are also still found Humberstone hotel with swimming pool facilities that have been dried his water but his diving board still stands today. In 1970 the Chilean government to set both the city as a national monument, and in 2005 designated as a cultural heritage site by UNESCO.
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