First, Route 66 was bypassed by Interstate 40, directing travelers away from the businesses that had popped up to serve them over the preceding decades, leaving Amboy to fade into a ghost town. In ...

The Western America Railroad Museum showcases the town’s important role in connecting California to the rest of the country. Housing costs remain remarkably affordable, with many single-family homes ...

Salton City sits on the western shore of the Salton Sea, California’s largest lake by surface area and a haven for budget shoppers. This unique community offers waterfront property and grocery stores ...

For a taste of the iconic Wild West, head to any of these American destinations, where you'll find cowboy history and ...

A new study is pointing a spooky, bony finger to Texas as one of the spookiest states in the country. Being the season of ghouls, witches and skeletons, the team at Hard Rock Bet, an online sportsbook ...

Cities don’t just disappear overnight. They fade, crack, and crumble under the weight of forces both visible and invisible — ...

Crumbling hotels, creaky boardwalks, and towns that time ghosted—without you trespassing on someone’s ranch. These West Coast ...

California’s landscape is dotted with forgotten places once-thriving communities that time has left behind. These ghost towns tell stories of gold rushes, mining booms, and dreams that turned to dust.

Haunted hotels like the Crescent Hotel and Spa in Arkansas and McMenamins Edgefield in Oregon attract ghost hunters and history enthusiasts nationwide.

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 ...

Selected from a record-breaking 60,636 entries from 113 countries and territories, the category and overall winners of the world’s leading wildlife photography competition, Wildlife Photographer of ...

South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever was announced as the Natural History Museum London's Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 for his photograph of a hyena at an abandoned town in ...