Explore Arizona’s forgotten ghost towns where haunting beauty and historic charm create a truly unforgettable experience.

Deep in Colorado's alpine wilderness lies a relic of mining history, offering sweeping Rocky Mountain views and eerie, ...

Abandoned towns or ghost towns are powerful reminders of America’s frontier past, mining booms, industrial failures, and environmental disasters. Many of these once-thriving communities were deserted ...

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

There is a special kind of road trip that takes you far from bright lights and traffic lights. The sun hangs low across open land. The dirt kicks up behind your tires. You see old shacks or remnants ...

Image Credit: Cavan-Images / Shutterstock. America’s ghost towns are eerie time capsules scattered across the country, each holding a story of ambition, struggle, and sometimes sudden abandonment.

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 ...

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, ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

The News Herald has been documenting Bay County's lost communities, or "ghost towns." Here's an interactive map of over 20 of ...