(Courtesy of Scott Peterson)| St. Elmo, located less than 83 miles southeast of Aspen, Colorado, is one of the state's best-preserved ghost towns. Formed in 1880 for miners in search of gold and ...

Utah's ghost towns are some of the best in the West, and fall is a great time to visit. Why it matters: Many are disappearing over time as they are absorbed by nature — or into newer towns.

In the U.S., one of the best-preserved ghost towns you can visit is Bodie, California. A gold rush mining town, Bodie had up to 10,000 residents at its peak and was actually one of California’s ...

Welcome to a Local’s Guide to the Drop-Dead Best Gettysburg Ghost Tours for 2024! If you’re looking for the best ghost tours ...

Here are expanded descriptions for all 20 ghost towns in Colorado: ...

Is there anything spookier that wandering around a town once bustling with people and activity that is now abandoned and deserted? Often nicknamed ghost towns, these once populated places become ...

Today, we consider them ghost towns. They died for many reasons. Some had bad soil. Some didn’t survive the change from river transportation to railroads. Some faded away before hardly anything ...

Once a thriving community, Humberstone in northern Chile is now a ghost town. Beginning in the late 1860s, hundreds of people lived and worked in Humberstone and nearby Santa Laura. Located in the ...

PLYMOUTH – Winooski is a ghost town that, at one time, supported a U.S. Post Office, a sawmill, grist mill, general store, village hall, cooper, blacksmith, woodworking shops, a cheese factory ...

Ghost towns are both eerie reminders of what once was and useful demonstrations of how the Earth moves on without us. Filmmaker Alexander Trowbridge reflects on nature taking over after ...

“As you can see, it became a ghost town,” said Hussein Barakat, 38, whose home in the southern city of Rafah was flattened. “There is nothing,” he said, as he sat drinking coffee on a ...