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

Walking through empty streets where laughter once filled the air feels deeply unsettling. These abandoned places tell stories ...

Bodie is the quintessential ghost town, frozen in time high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once a booming gold mining town ...

On my journey home, memories of my former life flooded me: the streets once beautiful, full of cars and smiling faces.

This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as 7 of the Creepiest Ghost Towns in the United States.

There’s something magnetic about abandoned places. Maybe it’s the silence where there used to be noise, or the way wooden buildings lean like they’re telling secrets to the wind. Ghost towns across ...

Myakka River has the first publicly accessible treetop trail in the nation.

Welcome to Bodie, California’s best-preserved ghost town. It looks pretty much the same as it did when the last residents ...

Martin gives library talks on the town’s haunted past and created the “Haunted Happenings” fundraiser for the historical ...

Looking for a spooky destination to travel to this Halloween? You're in luck. Take a look at any of these Halloween-friendly towns and cities across the U.S.

Some places are just spooky. Salem, Massachusetts, leans into its history as the home of 17th century witch trials, highlighting its Puritan-era churches and graveyards. There are occult- and ...