Some ghost towns in the United States used to be popular hotspots along Route 66, the "Mother Road" that extended thousands of miles from Illinois to California. Others, like the once-thriving prairie ...

Abandoned buildings in Bannack ghost town, Montana - Sue Smith/Shutterstock As the United States began expanding westward after the American Revolution, new settlements sprang up across the prairies ...

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, ...

The Black Hills are home to a number of once-thriving mining towns like Lead, an old gold rush town now filled with year-round adventure. But perhaps none is more evocative than Mystic, whose ghostly, ...