Have you ever been to a ghost town?

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Italy is full of tiny villages that are very depopulated like the ones you cited in North Dakota, but very few actual ghost towns. One of those ghost towns, though, Craco, is now very famous because it's a popular filming location, most notably when they shot part of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ" there. However I've never been there.