Gold had been discovered in the Sawtooth Mountains. It was 1879, thirty years after the California Gold Rush, and dozens of ...

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 ...

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

For a long time, ghost towns were the forgotten corners of the map. Abandoned mines, empty... The post How Ghost Towns Are Finding New Life As Tourism Experiments appeared first on The Daily Dive.

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

Explore forgotten ghost towns across Arkansas, from mining ruins to riverside relics, and discover hauntingly scenic places where history still whispers.

From Wrangell, Alaska, to Oatman, Arizona, you'll be surprised to see what these places looked like a century ago.

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, ...

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 ...

Canada's village of Cumberland has began using abandoned coal mines to supply clean geothermal heating and cooling for homes ...