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Ashland, Pennsylvania

Byrnesville

An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.
The upper port on the western kiln.
Panaca, Nevada

Panaca Summit Kilns

Two well-preserved charcoal kilns survive in a remote part of eastern Nevada.
Charlie the Coal Miner
Shinnston, West Virginia

Charlie the Coal Miner

A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.
List

8 Ghost Towns to Visit for Food and Spirits

Eat, drink, and be scary.
Sam Lin-Sommer October 13, 2022
Allanton, Scotland

Kingshill Miners Memorial

A striking statue commemorates the men who worked underground in Kingshill and Allanton.
Featherstone, England

Memorial to the Featherstone Massacre

A distinctive sculpture honors those killed and injured during a mineworkers strike in 1893.
Carnforth Coke Ovens
Carnforth, England

Carnforth Coke Ovens

These early 19th-century kilns were used to make coke, a key Ingredient in steel production.
Hucknall Miners Memorial
Hucknall, England

Hucknall Miners Memorial

This imaginative sculpture is a memorial to this town's former mining industry.
Pleasley Pit
Pleasley, England

Pleasley Pit

This park and coal mine heritage site is home to two of the last steam winding engines in the UK.
The museum.
Ponferrada, Spain

La Fábrica de Luz (Light factory-Energy Museum)

This former power station is now a museum dedicated to the region's coal-producing history.
A Fox Coal Company dump truck plants a load of dirt on the Graffiti Highway in April 2020. It took about 400 loads to cover the one-mile stretch of road.
disasters

The End of Centralia's Abandoned, Colorful, Anarchic 'Graffiti Highway'

First the fractured stretch of road became a canvas, then a gathering place. Now it will become forest.
Julie Knutson September 14, 2020
Nochten Boulder Park, on the site of an old open-cast coal mine, is one of the newly created landscapes in the Lausitzer Seenland.
lakes

From Mining Hellscape to Holiday Paradise

How Germany's Lusatian Lakes District is remaking an entire region through broad-scale landscape re-engineering.
Megan Gannon July 23, 2020
Permanently Closed
A few walls are still standing at the base of the chimney. The mine ceased operations in May, 1945.
Millfield, Ohio

Sunday Creek Coal Company Mine No. 6

The site of the worst mining disaster in Ohio's history.
Within the museum.
Charleroi, Belgium

Bois du Cazier

This former coal mine, now a fascinating museum, was the site of Belgium's worst mining disaster.
restaurants

The Chef Restoring Appalachia's World-Class Food Culture

A coal fortune is fueling the revival of a cuisine it nearly destroyed.
Eric J. Wallace January 10, 2020
The wooden coal tipple
Drumheller, Alberta

Atlas Coal Mine

A seven-story wooden coal tipple stands this former mine, the last of many that once covered this area.
View from observation point.
Elsdorf, Germany

Hambach Surface Mine

This mine is home to the largest man-made hole in Europe.
The view from suburbia.
Glasgow, Scotland

Temple Gasometers

These rusting, skeletal structures are monolithic monuments to Glasgow's industrial past