Pyramiden, Norway was founded in 1910 and purchased by the Soviet Union in the late 1920's. At one time the coal-mining settlement had a population of over 1,000 residents and workers. But in 1998 ...

The islands of Svalbard sit deep in the Arctic circle, far above Norway. On one island there sits a rusting, empty town, long forgotten by its residents and battered by extreme weather. Named ...

Photographer Jan Erik Waider has captured the eerily empty town of Pyramiden in the Svalbard archipelago, which is now mostly home to polar bears. His misty images focus on the deserted buildings and ...

An eerie ghost town has been left exactly as it was when crews abandoned it 27 years ago. The Mary Celeste ship has been etched into the memories of school children for decades. The American merchant ...

Pyramiden is a ghost town on an island in the Arctic Glacial Sea. It was a mining settlement originally belonging to Sweden until 1927, when it was sold to the Soviet Union. In 1998, it ceased ...