Get a peek at the world’s biggest ghost town

Grist
By hrichmondMar 13, 2014, 2:51 pm24 pts
There are no tumbleweeds or abandoned saloons here, but Ordos is most definitely an epic ghost town. Ghost city, to be precise — and the largest one in the world. Sitting in the middle of a desert in northern China, Ordos was intended to be the Vegas of Inner Mongolia. That was before everything went wrong.…

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