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Ghost Towns

Rocchette, Italy

Rocchettine

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

Podcast: Zone Rouge

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team April 12, 2021

Podcast: Pyramiden

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team April 6, 2021

Bodfish, California

Silver City Ghost Town

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

Brainerd, Minnesota

Old Crow Wing

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

Smartsville, California

Timbuctoo

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

Uravan, Colorado

Uravan

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

Once a Boom Town, Now a Ghost Town, Always a Hometown

The Soto family has lived through Arizona's mining booms and the broken promises that come with them.

Atlas Obscura October 21, 2020

Garden, Michigan

Fayette Historic Townsite

This 19th-century ghost town offers a stunning view of Lake Michigan and a journey through the region's industrial past.

Ardmore, South Dakota

Ardmore Ghost Town

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

Ivo Zdarsky Is Waiting Out the End Times in His Own Utah Ghost Town

The Iron Curtain escapee, DIY aviator, and thriving entrepreneur is ready for anything.

Oliver Whang September 16, 2020

Nathrop, Colorado

Hancock Ghost Town

All that remains of this once-booming mining town are the ruins of a saloon.

Saint-Denis, Italy

Barmaz Ghost Village

An abandoned village that resides along the mountains of the Aosta Valley.

Ashland, Pennsylvania

Big Mine Run Geyser

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

Orchard, Colorado

Dearfield Ghost Town

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

How to Quarantine in a Ghost Town

Cerro Gordo has been abandoned since 1957. Now one man is social distancing there by himself.

Matthew Taub April 29, 2020

Stevenson Ranch, California

Mentryville Park

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

The Last Mayors of the Salton Sea