If you are a fan of ghost towns, head to this Montana once-thriving mining community near Helena that is full of Old West ...

This small Montana mountain town serves as a gateway to forested mountains for hiking and camping, to rivers for fishing and ...

The Pacific Northwest is a prime region for ghost towns, with its desert areas preserving long-abandoned structures. Reddit ...

There’s a new sheriff in town in some Old West ghost towns: real estate brokers. And they’re looking to wrangle buyers. There are more than a few reasons somebody might want to own an entire town, ...

Travel through California ghost towns where crumbling streets, empty saloons and desert winds let silence tell the darkest ...

The rough-and-tumble days of the Old West may be gone in the Arizona of today, but the ghost towns it's left behind are sometimes just as fascinating. Arizona is full of places that once thrived and ...

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, ...

Walter Knott never set out to build a theme park — but a series of smart choices and lucky breaks led him and wife Cordelia Knott to building one of California’s earliest and most popular tourist ...

The best Washington ghost towns are those that are abandoned or nearly so, with just traces of human history left behind — a weathered church, a crumbling storefront, or just the outlines of old ...

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If there's an off-the-beaten-path type of attraction, person, or phenomenon in the DC area that you think more people should know about, Matt is your guy. As the features reporter for WTOP, he's ...