While the Taj Mahal was built to honour the dead, the magnificent fortified ghost city of Fatehpur Sikri, located just 40km west of Agra, was once very much a place for the living.
For an entire month in the summer, the city observes the Hungry Ghost Festival, where spirits are believed to visit the city and need to be fed and entertained.
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It explores a relationship between an American student visiting the city and the ghost of Thomas, who died in 1953.
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Wall Street remains a ghost town Tuesday as New York City grapples with the impact of Hurricane Sandy, after the devastating storm caused incredible damage up and down the East Coast.
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But for the most part, vintage Atlantic City is a memory, a ghost.
And the island city of Galveston itself is almost a ghost town.
By April 7th, when most of its population had fled, L'Aquila was like a city that had been extensively shelled: a ghost town in which almost the only sounds were of house alarms, ambulance sirens and the earth-movers of rescue workers.
The city's outskirts "appeared to be a ghost town, " and the few people left were leaving.
It is in the same part of the city that professional English magician and local personality Dan Dent prowls at night during his regular ghost walks.
No matter what happened to real-estate prices in this superstitious Chinese city, the one surefire way to get a cheap apartment was to move in with a ghost.
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If you do want to search out Dublin's supernatural attractions on your own, several companies offer dedicated ghost tours including Hidden Dublin Walks, which runs a variety of spooky walks and bus tours of the city and beyond.
Ghost-like mounds of powder-like gold can be seen, forever waiting for transportation to the northern Mexican city of San Luis Potosi for refinement.
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