Get a taste of the past at these cool ghost towns in the U.S. John Elk/Getty Images The rapid expansion west helped towns blossom all over the United States. Be it for their fertile land or ...

While abandoned ghost towns can be found in every state, much like cuisine and accents, each state’s ghost towns feel ...

Ghost towns, abandoned by the living, where the whispers of the past can still be seen and heard. ... South Carolina. Edgar Allan Poe’s name is all over Charleston, ...

In the U.S., one of the best-preserved ghost towns you can visit is Bodie, California. A gold rush mining town, Bodie had up to 10,000 residents at its peak and was actually one of California’s ...

Think of “ghost towns” and images of dusty, lost-to-time towns, like those in America’s Wild West, may come to mind. But a new era of ghost towns is now emerging that, while eerie, feels far ...

Explore these well-preserved U.S. ghost towns, which are all open to visitors. Some of the abandoned towns offer guided tours, artifact exhibits, and reenactments.