Across the American West, former mining settlements stand frozen in time, offering visitors a glimpse into the rise and fall ...

Arizona has been a destination for thousands of hopeful settlers over the years. At one point, many of them were miners looking to find gold in the mineral-rich Sonoran desert mountains. But, just as ...

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 ...

Tucked away in the mountains near Challis is an abandoned mining town surrounded by cozy campsites, rugged hikes, and epic ...

Due to its rich mining history, you'll find one of the USA's largest collections of ghost towns in Arizona. Here are 20 of ...

Abandoned towns, mountain silence, and forgotten stories reveal Colorado’s most haunting and beautiful places to explore.

In the U.S., eerie remnants of once-inhabited towns or villages exist in the form of "ghost towns," left in forgotten corners of the country. Nearly every U.S. state has some sort of ghost town, ...

The people may be long gone, but what they left behind fascinates. These five ghost towns are time capsules, giving visitors a peek into what life was like in each community during its heyday. Some ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. After the gilded metal was discovered on the southwest side of the Ortiz Mountains in the late 1820s, Golden was ...

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 out just as fast. Others fade slowly, little by little, until one day ...