(Courtesy of Scott Peterson)| St. Elmo, located less than 83 miles southeast of Aspen, Colorado, is one of the state's best-preserved ghost towns. Formed in 1880 for miners in search of gold and ...

As some boomtowns sprang up overnight and faded into the dust almost as quickly, prospectors left behind ghost towns: Over 300 are dotted around the Californian landscape. Picking the best ghost ...

Is there anything spookier that wandering around a town once bustling with people and activity that is now abandoned and deserted? Often nicknamed ghost towns, these once populated places become ...

Utah's ghost towns are some of the best in the West, and fall is a great time to visit. Why it matters: Many are disappearing over time as they are absorbed by nature — or into newer towns.

Josh Daly recently posted a video from Turkey where he said it's turned into a "ghost town". Brits appear to be avoiding the ...

Did you know that Florida is full of ghost towns? Some websites list more than 200 of them in the state. Ghost towns are cities, towns or villages that were abandoned for a particularly ...

Washington State offers many ghost towns with their unsettling tales and paranormal legends. Many such abandoned ghost towns, at one time alive and bustling places, stand like silent sentinels of old ...

Once a thriving community, Humberstone in northern Chile is now a ghost town. Beginning in the late 1860s, hundreds of people lived and worked in Humberstone and nearby Santa Laura. Located in the ...

Ghost towns are both eerie reminders of what once was and useful demonstrations of how the Earth moves on without us. Filmmaker Alexander Trowbridge reflects on nature taking over after ...

An old railroad crossing sign next to an abandoned elevator still stands in the ghost town of Slifer in southern eastern Webster County. At one time, it was not uncommon for Iowa to have a town ...