The island behind Javier Bardem's master hideaway in "Skyfall" does not have a happy story. If you've seen the 23rd Bond film, you remember the abandoned island housing Bardem's villain. Its remains ...

Nicknamed Gunkanjima, or Battleship Island, because of its shape, Hashima island has an eerie, sinister look, perfect for, say, a villain’s lair in an action movie. The inspiration for villain Raoul ...

Nine miles off the Japanese coast near Nagasaki lies Hashima Island, known to be one of the world's spookiest locations. The history of the island is dark and haunting as hundreds of workers faced a ...

Few people cared about the derelict Japanese island of Hashima until 2012, when its crumbling piers and abandoned apartment buildings were used as a backdrop for the secret island in the James Bond ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5kmKO_gGsc?feature=player_embedded] Google Trekker just announced the expansion of its street view hiking map project to ...

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Off the coast of Japan’s Nagasaki Prefecture, there’s a ghost island – a totally abandoned landmass filled with disintegrating buildings, and zero people. Hashima Island was once a hotbed for industry ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Battleship Island is just a nickname though – the island’s real name is Hashima Island, and it was a coal mining island. It was ...

If you’ve ever wanted to pretend to be James Bond on the abandoned island he travels to in “SkyFall,” you can now do so thanks to Google Street View. The island of Hashima, near Nagasaki, Japan, was ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Things took a turn for the sinister at the dawn of World War II, when the Japanese turned the island into a bona ...