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 ...

Imagine cruising through the Nevada desert, the sun beating down on your windshield, when suddenly you spot what looks like a movie set from an old Western film – except this isn’t Hollywood magic, it ...

The Southwest state ... other sights in town are believed by some to be haunted by ghosts, with evidence of paranormal ...

Located 20 miles southwest of Salt Lake City International Airport is Copperton. While it's not unusual to find once-booming abandoned desert mining settlements in Utah, this one still has a pulse. It ...

Ferndale, California ... town stages often deliver the biggest performances. Photo credit: Christine Way Ferndale’s calendar is punctuated by events that could only happen in a small town where ...

It was a dreary, drizzly, October-ish kind of day in Leesburg. The mist clung to the stone walls and stairs of 103 Loudoun St ...

Hurricane Melissa is grinding across eastern Cuba as a Category 3 storm after pummeling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record.

The custom home in Terlingua, a former mining town and tourist attraction near the Mexican border, is asking $2.1 million ...

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 ...

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.

Garnet is one of Montana’s best-preserved ghost towns, where original buildings and guided tours bring 19th-century mining history to life for travelers. Lydia Mansel is a writer with more than eight ...

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 ...