Today, there isn’t much left of the town, but there are still a few old buildings, like a diner, a café, a motel, and a gas ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

From ghost towns to gold mines to century-old saloons, the Wild West era is alive and well in the mountains of Colorado. Follow this road trip to see the same sights as cowboys, outlaws and famed ...

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 ...