Ghost Towns

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

A grand imperial capital left to fall into magnificent ruin.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

A Victorian cemetery hidden along a trucking route is all that remains of a 19th century village.