Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

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

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

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

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