Today, there isn’t much left of the town, but there are still a few old buildings, like a diner, a café, a motel, and a gas ...

Bodie is the quintessential ghost town, frozen in time high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once a booming gold mining town ...

Pennsylvania hides secrets beneath its rolling hills and forests, where entire towns have vanished from modern maps. These ...

Farther north, in the Keweenaw, moss now carpets what used to be streets, and wind moves through empty doorframes like a ...

Have you ever heard of a town where the ground beneath your feet is literally on fire? Centralia, Pennsylvania, used to be a ...

The Gulf whispers around Indianola’s ghost, where salt and wind erased what used to be Texas’ main port. Waves lap at grassy ...

Garnet, Montana, is one of the best ghost towns in the West, and it offers a chance to see what life was like in a 19th-century mining town. Once home to 1,000 residents and 13 saloons, Garnet was ...

The Beehive State is full of complex stories of settlement, some inspiring, some a little unsavory; some tales of grit and perseverance turned to boom and bust. During the 1800s and early 1900s, ...

Walter Knott never set out to build a theme park — but a series of smart choices and lucky breaks led him and wife Cordelia Knott to building one of California’s earliest and most popular tourist ...

PANAMA CITY— Those who have enjoyed tubing or kayaking down Econfina Creek, or swimming in any of the surrounding springs that feed it, may be unaware that the river winds through several abandoned ...

The best Washington ghost towns are those that are abandoned or nearly so, with just traces of human history left behind — a weathered church, a crumbling storefront, or just the outlines of old ...