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

Today, there isn’t much left of the town, but there are still a few old buildings, like a diner, a café, a motel, and a gas ...

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 ...

You walk into the area that once was home to a community of people just living their lives day to day. Now the site is empty, the fog hangs low and you can hear yourself breathing. The hair on your ...

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

Rhyolite, a ghost town near Beatty and Death Valley in Southern Nevada, was named one of the spookiest places in the United States by RV Trader, an online shop for recreational vehicles. RV Trader ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...