One of Florida's many ghost towns was founded by its twelfth governor, who was also a magnate in the lumber business. The ...

It’s interesting how the southwest metropolitan area of the Twin Cities grew into a patchwork of cities, but there might have been more today if a few more places had survived. Today, we consider them ...

Experts Find the Real Reason Behind 'Ghosts' Roaming in This South Carolina Town People tend to mistake a lot of natural ...

Namibia, while renowned for its expansive deserts and abundant wildlife, holds a lesser-known yet equally captivating allure: a landscape dotted with intriguing relics of abandoned towns.

While most ghost towns remain vacant ... time or that the paranormal activity that often is a draw was a little too real. Cimcie Nichols and her best friend were looking for a fun place to ...

Colorado is rich in history, and one of its most fascinating features is its collection of abandoned ghost towns. These once-thriving mining settlements now stand as eerie remnants of the past, ...

Explore forgotten resorts, medieval ghost towns, and even a real-life Wild West settlement. Whether you're an urban explorer, history lover, or just curious about these lost places, this list has ...

Florida has as many as 240 ghost towns, but there's one that formed during the Civil War era that's recently been getting renewed attention after laying abandoned for decades. The remnants of ...

This community of about 1,000 was doomed when a garbage fire ignited abandoned coal mines that ran right under the town. Despite every effort to extinguish it, the fire has been burning since 1962.

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 ...

At one time a town may have been booming but for whatever reason, one day, everyone left. Or maybe a business had a shop that didn't do well and then no one took over the location after they left. All ...