Nevada is home to more than 600 ghost towns. Most are vestiges of the region’s mining boom-and-bust era, which began with the discovery of gold near present-day Dayton in 1849 and continued into ...

Driven out of Nevada Most ghost towns in Nevada — like Rhyolite, Belmont and Delamar — began as boomtowns, Green said. White settlers sought work mining in Nevada’s mountains and hills ...

Photographer Francesca Di Stefano has taken amazing photos of the ghost towns and valleys in Nevada. The Silver State is littered with abandoned mining towns and camps that were thriving during ...

Among the dozens of ghost towns that make up the state of Nevada, Rhyolite holds a special place for all those travelers looking to capture the most instagrammable images. Unlike other sites ...

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

These ghost towns are essentially snapshots of a different ... a place that went from riches to ruins as quickly as Rhyolite, Nevada, even if you tried. Gold fever gripped the town in the early ...

America's western states are full of these towns; many were founded during ... make a pit stop in Nevada City, a ghost town situated roughly 90 miles northwest of Yellowstone National Park.

Often nicknamed ghost towns, these once populated places become unoccupied for all kinds of reasons - natural and manmade disasters, changing economic conditions and political upheaval ...