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 ...

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 ...

LODI, Ohio – Perhaps the Lodi haunting legends started when Lodi founder Judge Joseph Harris built his first home atop sacred Native American burial grounds and removed the skeletons from the ...

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.

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

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

The prediction was made that college towns would turn rapidly into “ghost towns” amidst a largely online environment ... Ohio — home of Miami University of Ohio — Kate Rousmaniere is both ...

The old mining town of Calico, California, offers ghost tours. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories . Some abandoned towns across the US might not be as empty as previously thought.