Ghost Towns in Colorado

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

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

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

Toss a Frisbee through the ruins of this Colorado gold mining town.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.