In the build-up to Halloween those hunting for a real-life ghost town need look no further than this haunting spot. Bodie, California, USA – which requires special access to photograph at night – is one of the best preserved ghost towns in America, still featuring the abodes of the former miners who inhabited it more than 100 years ago. Here: Bodie, California, a real-life ghost town. (Photo by Matthew Christopher/Caters News Agency)

People run into the sea at the beach of Scheveningen on New Year's Day, Scheveningen, Netherlands, 01 January 2023. The traditional New Year's dive was resumed after the two previous editions were canceled due to the corona crisis. (Photo by Remko de Waal/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

“Like most Brits, Emmie Stevens is dog mad. But the 25-year-old has taken it to the next level, spending £30,000 on her nine pets. Emmie’s dogs enjoy regular manicures and fur dyes and have their own walk in wardrobe to store their £15,000 clothing collection”. – Daily Record. Photo: Bailey the Staffordshire bull terrier, holding a red rose. (Photo by Helen Yates/Barcroft Media)

Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker perform during the short dance program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Greensboro, N.C., Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

The legendary US photographer’s favourite shots of creatures and how they interact with humans feature in “Animals”, his latest book. Here: A boy rests against a cow, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2013. “Cows have been designated the national animal in Nepal. They roam freely, and are considered sacred by the 80% of Nepalis who are Hindu”. (Photo by Steve McCurry/The Guardian)

Ex On The Beach star Charlotte Dawson out on the town with friends on the party island Ibiza, Spain on October 3, 2016. (Photo by Jon Baxter/ICelebTV)

This photograph, taken on September 28, 2019, shows an Erythrina Abyssinica planted in a pasture on Ferme Espoir, owned by former President Joseph Kabila, in Masisi territory, northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Photo by Alexis Huguet/AFP Photo)

Japan's Mayumi Someya (R) competes against Venezuela's Claudymar Garces Sequera in the women's kumite -61kg elimination round of the karate competition during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on August 6, 2021. (Photo by Carl Recine/Reuters)