Across Illinois, once-bustling river ports and mining towns now sit silent, their fading buildings quietly preserving the stories of a forgotten past.

This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as 7 of the Creepiest Ghost Towns in the United States.

For decades, ghost towns across the United States have captured the imagination of adventurers, storytellers, and ...

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This once-thriving mining town was mostly abandoned after a coal seam fire ignited beneath it in 1962 and continues to burn ...

From abandoned mining villages to entire islands that have been left to rot, here are some of the creepiest ghost towns around the world.

Each year, a spectral train is said to pull up to the Cinnabar Depot at the North Entrance of Yellowstone National Park. But Cinnabar is a ghost ...

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 ...