Many abandoned houses can be restored, so there is hope for the town. The epitome of an Old West town, Bodie is one of the oldest ghost towns in America. In its heyday, it housed dozens of saloons ...

Halloween is a perfect time to pack up the family and take a little road trip to America’s best ghost towns. Nothing says spooky like trekking through old abandoned buildings in a former mining ...

Just as quickly, the vast majority were abandoned when the ore ran ... touring some of Colorado’s best-preserved ghost towns. Keep in mind that old mines are dangerous and can be home to ...

“The ghost towns here in Carver County … don’t really look the same way ghost towns out west do, where you’ve got a lot of, like, abandoned ... you talking about old Dakota and Ojibwe ...

Abandoned because of illness, collapsing industry, or merely because their pioneering citizens moved on, these communities became known as “ghost towns ... and even an old jail.

Some hiking trails at both parks lead to hidden cemeteries and stone foundations of old mills and homesteads. That's how it is with ghost towns: Some of these abandoned towns are still standing ...

Sign at Old Molson entrance ... Most of these towns were abandoned before long, especially once interstate highways were put in. Now, they sit as ghost towns or simply ruins.

There’s a new sheriff in town in some Old West ghost towns ... What the towns themselves all have in common, of course, is that they are abandoned. And depending on a multitude of factors ...

These days, ghosts and ghost towns are still ... Indianola had been abandoned. Today, history buffs can still visit remnants of the once-booming area, including the old cistern, the original ...

The other side: Ghost towns and abandoned mines are beloved by historians ... There have been 11 recorded deaths in old mines since 1982, with another 45 injuries, falls and entrapments ...