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 ...

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.

Once a booming mining town of 10,000 gold miners in the late 1800’s, this town boasts one of the most well-preserved towns, including 200 buildings, saloons and bank vault.

The main characters in Jerry Roth’s new horror novel, “Ghost From a Yard Sale,” live in a spooky old renovated Catholic ...