Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Atacama Desert in northern Chile holds two ghost towns called Humberstone and Santa Laura. Once home to thousands, they were ...

UNESCO World Heritage Centre Humberstone and Santa Laura works are the best preserved and most representative remains of a series of over 200 saltpeter works that once existed, all of which were ...

Once a thriving community, Humberstone in northern Chile is now a ghost town. Beginning in the late 1860s, hundreds of people lived and worked in Humberstone and nearby Santa Laura. Located in the ...