From Pripyat and Plymouth to Kolmanskop, Craco, and Bodie, these ruins show how disaster and decline can freeze everyday life in place.

Calico Ghost Town in San Bernardino County is sitting in the Mojave Desert, waiting to prove that the real Old West was even ...

Route 66 is one of the most famous highways in the world. Opened on November 11, 1926, it connected Chicago and Los Angeles. Yellow Dog Village, a ghost town that looks as if people have suddenly run ...

Forty-five miles southeast of Tucson on the east slope of the Santa Rita Mountains are the Greaterville gold placers, discovered by A. Smith in 1874. The deposit, at 5,280-feet elevation, became the ...