The people may be long gone, but what they left behind fascinates. These five ghost towns are time capsules, giving visitors ...

Drive eleven miles up Castle Creek Valley, away from the buzz of Aspen, and you will find yourself in the presence of ...

Bodie is the quintessential ghost town, frozen in time high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once a booming gold mining town in the late 1800s, Bodie’s population dwindled as the gold veins dried up.

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 ...

Wild West towns keep frontier history alive with preserved streets, cowboy traditions, lively reenactments and solid cultural ...

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

Not every town gets to stick around forever. Some start with a bang—gold rush fever, a mining boom, a railroad deal—only to fizzle out just as fast. Others fade slowly, little by little, until one day ...

Step inside the abandoned Spirit of the West park in Winnard’s Perch, Cornwall. Explore the Yellow Rose Hotel, County Jail, ...

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 ...

These Tennessee ghost towns may be deserted, but they’re rich with history. Explore the forgotten places travelers still love ...