Cerro Gordo, like all the ghost towns on our list, was once a thriving place. People lived, worked, and died there. But when good times became bad times, the town emptied out.

MARIETTA, Ohio – There’s history on every corner in Marietta, Ohio’s oldest town, created years before the state was founded in 1803. And in between those corners? Popular restaurants and ...

Vulture Mine, and its surrounding ghost town in Wickenburg, is supposedly riddled with ghosts. Legend says 18 miners met their demise on the limbs of the infamous Hanging Tree for stealing gold.

With the boom of morbidly curious tourism, ghost towns in the US have never been hotter. With their preserved-in-time ...

Philip Varney, 81, who penned more than 10 books on ghost towns in different regions and states, including New Mexico’s Best Ghost Towns: A Practical Guide, first published in 1981, knows this well.

While most of Nevada’s in-tact ghost towns are concentrated in the central and northern portions of the state, the remnants of several abandoned communities remain in Southern Nevada.

Michigan is reportedly one of the most haunted states in America, with the fourth-most ghost sightings reported here than in any other state (excluding Texas, California and Ohio).

Sure, you've heard of Bumble Bee and Tombstone, but Arizona has over 100 ghost towns. Here's what to know about seven abandoned towns.

Founded in 1797, the Village of Waynesville — named for General “Mad” Anthony Wayne — is believed to be one of the most haunted towns in Ohio. It comes as no surprise that October in ...

Abandoned after economic busts and other disasters, these spots of eerie desolation are often free to the visitors brave enough to visit.

W.F. Woodford, a Civil War veteran from Ohio, homesteaded the land in the late 1880s and drew up a plat. He envisioned a thriving farming community and later opened the Farmdale Post Office in 1889.

Explore these well-preserved U.S. ghost towns, which are all open to visitors. Some of the abandoned towns offer guided tours, artifact exhibits, and reenactments.