Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not every town gets to stick around forever. Some start with a bang—gold rush fever, a mining boom, a railroad deal—only to fizzle ...

If you're taking a trip out west and want to visit a ghost town, you can head to this South Dakota destination that used to ...

For over a decade, Steve Ronin has explored abandoned places worldwide, including South of the Border, a unique roadside ...

Have you ever considered that in our culture, sand often symbolizes time? This is not only because sand was used to fill ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The abandoned 1912 high school building in Toya, Texas, now sits empty in the West Texas ghost town. Toya, once a booming railroad ...

The lost towns of Scotia and Tow Hill are being chronicled by an amateur historian who is worried they could be forgotten.

As a kid my grandparents took my brother and I fishing every summer and the days we didn’t fish were reserved for going to ghost towns. Even though it was considered bad luck to ...

Las Vegas might be known for glitzy resorts and casinos, but venture beyond the Strip and you'll find eerie yet memorable ...

Gold panning is one of those activities that sounds better in theory than in practice, right up until the moment you actually ...

Leave the pavement behind and head deep into Nevada’s backcountry, and it won’t take long to stumble across the remnants of ...