JEROME, Arizona – In a few short years, Jerome went from a billion-dollar mining town to one of the nation’s biggest ghost towns. And then it reinvented itself again, as a tourist town and artist hub.

Arizona’s strangest museum — or maybe just its rustiest — clings to a hill high above the Verde Valley. It looks like several garages exploded. Or like the ruins of an ancient junkyard have been ...

An old mining town clings to the side of a mountain. It is a lost land of concrete bones, a skeleton from a different age. Once hailed as “the wickedest town in the West,” it set aside its rowdy ways.

Stone and antler tools with pieces of pottery proved that the mineral deposits had been worked by ancient people before ore ...

You really have to dig old buildings to get the most out of Jerome. This enclave of creative folk is full of them, aged structures huddled against state Route 89A as it winds like a corkscrew up ...