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EPECUEN, Argentina (AP) — Cushioned by a soft silence ruffled only by occasional gusts of wind, tourists walk past rubble and metal shards lying in the streets of what was once the bustling resort of ...

On the eastern shore of a salt lake in Argentina’s Buenos Aires Province, about four miles from the town of Carhué, stands one of the world’s strangest ghost towns, a resort that spent 25 years ...

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An eerie ghost town is all that is left of a former thriving lakeside resort which became a modern Atlantis after it was submerged underwater for 30 years. Villa Epecuén, in Argentina, today sits ...

Cushioned by a soft silence ruffled only by occasional gusts of wind, tourists walk past rubble and metal shards lying in the streets of what was once the bustling resort of Villa Epecuen. Others ...

This eerie real-life Atlantis has reappeared from under flood waters after spending 25 years submerged. Some 1,500 residents barely had time to grab their belongings when the spa resort of Villa ...