Not every town gets to stick around forever. Some start with a bang—gold rush fever, a mining boom, a railroad deal—only to ...

Buying an entire town sounds unreal until you see it listed. Across the U.S., former mining camps, rail stops, and company ...

Wild West boomtowns that turned into hollow relics hold a macabre grip on travelers' imaginations, and Utah's abandoned sites ...

The Earth is constantly changing, and sometimes that change comes at the cost of entire communities. Over the centuries, countless towns, cities, and even entire communities have disappeared, ...

Abandoned places have a unique allure, often capturing the imagination with their eerie beauty and mysterious histories. In America, countless derelict sites appear almost cinematic, as if they’ve ...

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, ...

The rough-and-tumble days of the Old West may be gone in the Arizona of today, but the ghost towns it's left behind are sometimes just as fascinating. Arizona is full of places that once thrived and ...

AMBOY, Calif. — Water is the key to the future of Roy’s Motel & Cafe, the lone survivor in a Route 66 town that, at its peak, boasted 200 residents, three gas stations, three motels, two cafes, a post ...

In the U.S., eerie remnants of once-inhabited towns or villages exist in the form of "ghost towns," left in forgotten corners of the country. Nearly every U.S. state has some sort of ghost town, ...

As Halloween approaches, people may be looking for some spooky exploring to do in the Silver State. Luckily for Nevadans, their home state has hundreds of ghost towns perfect for a scare or historical ...