The current owner, Alexander Bardorff, and a few friends from Germany made the purchase on a whim after drving through and seeing it for sale. The Texas ghost Town of Lobo was abandoned in 1991.

When a tiny windswept ghost town in West Texas hit the real estate ... “Chello” Gonzalez told The Dallas Morning News the sale was finalized in October 2023, and the 10 acres are valued ...

Narrator: And that's Gillian, a new homeowner in Sambuca, Sicily, a picturesque town in Italy's countryside in danger of dying out. That is, until the government started selling abandoned homes ...