Just over an hour's drive from Zion National Park lies a historic and notorious Utah ghost town famous for its beehive kilns, ...

The town, once one of the world's richest, is now completely abandoned and a haven for dark tourism in Africa.

Once bustling with the chatter of miners and the clinking of pickaxes, Colorado's abandoned mining towns stand today as silent witnesses to a time of great ambition and bitter disappointment.

abandoned city. America's western states are full of these towns; many were founded during the mining boom in the late 1800s to serve as home bases for miners. Today, these historically ...

It was once the only town in the area and served as a camp for mining prospectors in the Artillery Mountains range. It never expanded the way other Arizona ghost towns once had, housing only a ...

Nevada is home to more than 600 ghost towns. Most are vestiges of the region’s mining boom-and-bust era, which began with the discovery of gold near present-day Dayton in 1849 and continued into ...

Often nicknamed ghost towns, these once populated places become ... population to nearly 10,000 and transforming it from a small mining camp to a bustling settlement. It had saloons, hotels ...

Douglas, closed during The Great Depression in 1938. Mining ceased altogether in 1953. Jerome is considered a "ghost town" not only because it was once abandoned, but because of its stories about ...

Most in-tact ghost towns are concentrated in central and northern parts of Nevada where mining was more abundant in the late 1800s and early 1900s, said Megg Mueller, who has co-authored a book on ...

The San Juan Skyway links four mountain ranges and five historic mining towns in one 233-mile loop. Between Durango and ...

Europe is riddled with eerie ghost towns, from depopulated military and mining towns and drowned villages to ancient enclaves ...