Ghost Towns

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

Built as a schoolhouse in 1914, this Mission-style building has also served as a dancehall, a library, an Army canteen, and now a cultural museum.

An abandoned company town and cement factory outside of Bogotá, now haunted by ghosts and scofflaws.

The only residents of this abandoned housing development full of identical castles are stray cats and dogs.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

This once-booming oil city is now a relic of the region's industrial past.

Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.

This long-abandoned village sits across a narrow gorge from a still-inhabited settlement that was once its twin.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

This once prosperous community was home to European settlers and the Ojibwe.

Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.