Bodie is the quintessential ghost town, frozen in time high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once a booming gold mining town ...

Explore Virginia’s forgotten ghost towns where echoes of history linger in ruins, trails, and silent riverbanks.

America is filled with small towns that seem picture-perfect on the surface—but some carry a darker history that refuses to stay buried. Behind charming main streets and historic homes lurk chilling ...

Across the American frontier, ghost towns sit frozen in time. Behind their crumbling walls are stories of fortune, failure, and haunting silence.

In the U.S., eerie remnants of once-inhabited towns or villages exist in the form of "ghost towns," left in forgotten corners of the country. Nearly every U.S. state has some sort of ghost town, ...

As Halloween approaches, people may be looking for some spooky exploring to do in the Silver State. Luckily for Nevadans, their home state has hundreds of ghost towns perfect for a scare or historical ...

Editor’s note: Caprock Chronicles is edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s article about Lubbock’s forgotten ...

The I-35 corridor in Gainesville, Texas, was stunned when the once-ambitious Truckers Paradise shut down without ...

Salem is not the only spooky town in the U.S. Though the Massachusetts hot spot probably is worth a visit for any Spooky Season enthusiast (we'll get to why later), there are towns in every state in ...

Texas is famous for leading the nation in cattle, cotton and oil, but the Lone Star State can claim another distinction more appropriate for Halloween this week: Texas not only hosts more bat species ...

Myakka River has the first publicly accessible treetop trail in the nation.