Not every town gets to stick around forever. Some start with a bang—gold rush fever, a mining boom, a railroad deal—only to ...

Tucked in southeastern Ohio, this forest trail quietly delivers you to Moonville’s haunted railroad tunnel and scattered ...

In 1962, the town council of Centralia, Pennsylvania decided to burn trash in a landfill built inside an abandoned strip mine ...

Once a thriving anthracite coal town, Centralia slowly unraveled after a landfill fire ignited its labyrinth of mining tunnels. Over the next two decades, carbon monoxide leaks, collapsing streets, ...

Ghost towns are the skeletal remains of once-bustling communities, offering a haunting glimpse into America’s past. These abandoned locales are often the result of economic shifts, natural disasters, ...

Artisanal coal miner Emmanuel Siyabonga hauls a sack of coal to a client's car at the abandoned Golfview coal mine in Ermelo, South Africa. The work is grueling and hazardous but is one of the few ...

Snake River Golf and Gem Mining, an abandoned mini-golf entertainment complex off Highway 17S in Myrtle Beach has been abandoned for years but will re-open under new ownership soon. A water tower and ...

There’s a strange pull to New Mexico’s ghost towns. Maybe it’s the quiet, maybe it’s the mystery. Or maybe, it’s just fun to imagine what life looked like before the doors slammed shut. These are not ...

The best Washington ghost towns are those that are abandoned or nearly so, with just traces of human history left behind — a weathered church, a crumbling storefront, or just the outlines of old ...

When Emmanuel Siyabonga was a boy, he wasn't fussy about the type of job he wanted when he grew up. Other boys dreamed of being footballers, doctors, soldiers. All Siyabonga wanted, he says, was a job ...