Deep in Pennsylvania sits a ghost town swallowed by fire, silence, and rumor. Centralia was once a normal mining community ...

West Virginia's New River Gorge National Park is home to a unique mining town, which, while long shuttered, is still open for ...

Image Credit: Cavan-Images / Shutterstock. America’s ghost towns are eerie time capsules scattered across the country, each holding a story of ambition, struggle, and sometimes sudden abandonment.

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, ...

Plans to fix up abandoned mine lands and clean a mine-polluted watershed in two Schuylkill County municipalities are moving forward thanks to a $550,000 federal grant. The money is to be used to ...

The Beehive State is full of complex stories of settlement, some inspiring, some a little unsavory; some tales of grit and perseverance turned to boom and bust. During the 1800s and early 1900s, ...

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 ...

A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more--a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned lessons about chasing ...

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 ...