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 ...

Today, there isn’t much left of the town, but there are still a few old buildings, like a diner, a café, a motel, and a gas ...

There is a special kind of road trip that takes you far from bright lights and traffic lights. The sun hangs low across open land. The dirt kicks up behind your tires. You see old shacks or remnants ...

Farther north, in the Keweenaw, moss now carpets what used to be streets, and wind moves through empty doorframes like a ...

The Gulf whispers around Indianola’s ghost, where salt and wind erased what used to be Texas’ main port. Waves lap at grassy ...

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

The Beehive State is full of complex stories of settlement, some inspiring, some a little unsavory; some tales of grit and perseverance turned to boom and bust. During the 1800s and early 1900s, ...

Ghost towns aren’t just spooky sets for movies—they’re real. These eerie, abandoned locales are peppered throughout the United States. Many are old mining settlements, left to rot after the goldmines ...