Wealthy buyers and tourism entrepreneurs are acquiring abandoned European villages — school, church and bar included.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spain is said to have no fewer than 3,000 abandoned villages, mostly in the north - but some are being brought back to life.

Anavatos on Chios Island, Greece is a hauntingly beautiful abandoned village crowned with a medieval castle where crumbling ...

One of Britain's biggest and most famous deserted medieval villages, Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire has remnants of century-old houses, a church and ancient ruins for visitors to explore ...

Imber village was 'liberated' by the US Army as they prepared for the D-Day landings but it has now become an abandoned ghost town ...

Villages across Spain used to be full of life, work, celebration, places where people loved, worshipped and mourned their ...