Garnet, Montana, is one of the best ghost towns in the West, and it offers a chance to see what life was like in a 19th-century mining town. Once home to 1,000 residents and 13 saloons, Garnet was ...

Bodie is the quintessential ghost town, frozen in time high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once a booming gold mining town in the late 1800s, Bodie’s population dwindled as the gold veins dried up.

Often referred to as the “Atlantis of the Sands,” Ubar was a city swallowed by the unforgiving sands of the Arabian desert.

Hollywood gave us a version of the Old West filled with shootouts and saloons, yet the real frontier was far more complex and ...

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 ...

Monument Peak, which some old-timers call Lizard Mountain, looms over what's left of the ghost town of Lake Valley in southern New Mexico on April 16, 2008. Ghost towns are prevalent in the West and ...

There are no states with more old western towns than Arizona. The Grand Canyon State is notorious for its plethora of Old West locale, and, depending on who you ask, is how the state came to be. Some ...

The Gulf whispers around Indianola’s ghost, where salt and wind erased what used to be Texas’ main port. Waves lap at grassy ...

Once defined by abandoned mills and economic decline, the neighboring towns of Newport and Claremont, New Hampshire, are ...