While visiting this eerie, not-quite-deserted Colorado ghost town that once bigger than Denver, you'll want to keep your eyes ...

This land is your land — until a foreign mining company wants it,” writes the owner and caretaker of a historic 19th-century ...

In the spirit of Halloween, here are 13 carefully chosen ghost towns—because 13 seems like a hauntingly good number. Calico is an old West mining town that was inhabited from 1881. In its heyday ...

The rapid expansion west in the 19th century helped towns ... Terlingua is yet another mining town, only this one became one of the greats. By the 1930s, the community was one of the largest ...

In the 1890s, the Bighorns were a vast, rugged territory with few roads beyond wagon pathways. While horses and oxen could ...

It filled in gaps in the Black history of the mining town, an integral setting in the ... one of the most important industrial cities in the West. Its riches helped pave the way to the creation ...

Iron and Railroad Co. operated in town is gone, there is a place where visitors can see what this part of Alabama was like in its mining heyday. Just outside downtown West Blocton, the preserved ...

It’s in the forest. It’s under your feet as you walk the streets of Ghana’s biggest mining town. It’s the economy. Exposed holes in the ground bear witness to attempts at illegally digging ...

Judy Slack, a local historian and the vice president of the Big Horn City Historical Society, said building a city on the top of Bald Mountain — a peak more ...