He recently purchased an abandoned farm for $15,000 "right by the beach" in Kujukuri, a town in the Chiba prefecture of Honshu, the largest and most populous island of Japan.

In the Belgian countryside, we discovered an abandoned farmhouse once owned by a hardworking farming family. The house ...

Tucked away in the countryside lies the abandoned farmhouse of Mister Antoon, untouched since the mid-1970s. From the ...