Crumbling hotels, creaky boardwalks, and towns that time ghosted—without you trespassing on someone’s ranch. These West Coast picks are either public parks, outdoor museums, or “living ghost towns” ...

Discover Michigan’s forgotten ghost towns—from buried ports to eerie cemeteries—where mining ruins, lost communities, and ...

Journey back through time in Arizona and discover five deserted towns left behind after mining booms, train‑robbing legends ...

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Editor’s note: This story originally ran in The Denver Post. With abandoned mines, dusty streets and ramshackle buildings, Colorado’s ghost towns have a knack for giving visitors goosebumps. Colorado ...

It would be easy to drive past Spring Lake Cemetery. Nestled among fields and farms near Hastings, the 1-acre cemetery is home to weathered stone graves dating to the 1800s. Some stick out of the ...

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From ghost towns to gold mines to century-old saloons, the Wild West era is alive and well in the mountains of Colorado. Follow this road trip to see the same sights as cowboys, outlaws and famed ...

A clutch of empty businesses around an old highway intersection, burned out cars beside abandoned buildings-we've scared up some Texas ghost towns worth exploring.

You easily can conjure one in your mind's eye. The West is full of ghost towns, once-thriving places whose residents, for one reason or another, drifted away. But the West doesn't have a total lock on ...

It’s interesting how the southwest metropolitan area of the Twin Cities grew into a patchwork of cities, but there might have been more today if a few more places had survived. Today, we consider them ...

DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION, Calif. — The Amargosa Hotel was once a hub of activity, the Spanish Colonial-style buildings filled with workers from the Pacific Coast Borax company. Once the mine shut down, ...