Dubbed "Australia's Chernobyl", the once-bustling mining village of Wittenoom has become a ghost town after residents were forced to leave over serious safety concerns.
The lethal legacy left behind by the town is a chilling reminder of the dangerous silent killer that is asbestos.
Surrounded by 50,000 hectares of poisonous earth, the town still had residents living there up until May of last year despite repeated warnings and thousands of deaths.
Roads were blocked off, signs ripped from the ground and every map in the country had become blacklisted from showing the fatal patch as the death toll upped each year.
Wittenoom was previously a social hub for real estate and a property developers dream back in 1943. Mining for blue asbestos began as people moved into the area.
The very thing that attracted them to Wittenoom was also what was killing them each day as the fibres they were. breathing in soon became apparent.
Workers and residents died due to the killer fibres and forced the mines to close in 1996.