Can someone help me describe an old abandoned town or village?

A ghost town is an abandoned village, town, or city, usually one that contains substantial visible remains. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, or nuclear disasters. The term can sometimes refer to cities, towns, and neighborhoods that are still populated, but significantly less so than in years past; for example those affected by high levels of unemployment and dereliction.[1]

Some ghost towns, especially those that preserve period-specific architecture, have become tourist attractions. Some examples are Bannack, Montana; Calico, California; Centralia, Pennsylvania; Oatman, Arizona; and South Pass City, Wyoming in the United States, Barkerville, British Columbia in Canada, Craco in Italy, Elizabeth Bay and Kolmanskop in Namibia, Pripyat in Ukraine, and Danushkodi in India. Visiting, writing about, and photographing ghost towns is a minor industry.

The town of Plymouth on the Caribbean island of Montserrat is a ghost town that is the de jure capital of Montserrat. It was rendered uninhabitable by volcanic ash from an eruption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_town

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3509524/Gh...

The empty shells of former residence leaning & buckled in the wind ?

Is this what you mean?

Look for pictures of abandoned towns on the internet. Then describe what you see.

you're welcome

The following is a list of ghost towns, listed by continent, then by country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_...

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-strangest-and-most-trag...

An abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. In many countries, and throughout history, thousands of villages have been deserted for a variety of causes. Abandonment of villages is often related to epidemic, famine, war, climate change, environmental destruction, or deliberate clearances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandoned_village

http://slowitaly.yourguidetoitaly.com/2013/10/ghos...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3068494/Th...

I once visited an old abandoned town in Galicia. It was very different from the old abandoned mining towns that I have been to in the Australian Outback or the ones on the High Plains of the Western United States. It was also nothing like the old Mayan cities that have been reclaimed by the jungle. A defunct Canadian logging village wouldn't bear much resemblance to Pripyat either. Where is this town of yours? When was it built? Who built it and why? Those answers are going to affect the description.