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Ghost Towns

Old Sagiada

Abandoned and overgrown town with views of the Mediterranean Sea.

Kolmanskop

The Atlas Obscura Guide to Winter Sun

Not where it's warm. Where the northern winter is the only window.

By Atlas Obscura August 14, 2026

Geneva, Florida

Geneva Bank Vault

From an earlier era, a small community was established and was prosperous but drifted away, leaving only the bank vault behind.

Wickenburg, Arizona

Vulture City Ghost Town

Vulture Mine was Arizona’s most productive gold mine, and instrumental to the development of Phoenix.

Schleiden, Germany

Wollseifen Village

An eerie ghost village hidden in the forests of the Eifel, frozen in a strange postwar limbo.

So Lo Pun

One of the Hakka "ghost villages" of Plover Cove famed for its haunted locked compass legend.

Pere Cheney, Michigan

Pere Cheney Cemetery

All that remains of a vanished Michigan lumber town, remembered for tragedy, plague, and a witch’s curse.

Scenic, South Dakota

Scenic Ghost Town

The empty town of Scenic, South Dakota, is owned by a church in the Philippines.

8 Haunting and Beautiful Places to Visit in West Virginia

From a ghostly hotel to a small-town Halloween fantasia to a pair of legendary creatures said to roam the woods, West Virginia has bountiful offerings sure to bewitch all kinds of visitors.

Sponsored By West Virginia Department of Tourism

Gebo Ghost Town

Remnants of a town from a bygone era.

West Shokan, New York

The Drowned Towns of the Ashokan Reservoir

Beneath its placid surface, one of New York City's primary sources of drinking water hides a haunted past.

Mogollon, New Mexico

Mogollon Ghost Town

Once a mining boom town, Mogollon’s well-preserved buildings are tucked away in the mountains of the Gila National Forest.

Vacant, crumbling buildings line the streets of Brownsville, Pennsylvania. A slump in the steel and coal industries hit the town hard, but property hoarding by two investors drove Brownsville to decay.

Raising a Ghost Town From the Dead

Two investors bought most of the buildings in downtown Brownsville, then let them fall into ruin. Now, the Rust Belt town's residents are fighting to bring it back to life.

Matthew Christopher April 8, 2025

Nothing, Arizona

The Ghost Town of Nothing, Arizona

Nothing to see here.

A mural celebrating Russian space exploration remains on the wall at Prypiat's abandoned post office, which once served nearly 50,000 residents.

Tragedy Lingers Inside Chornobyl's Abandoned City

It’s been nearly 40 years since a reactor exploded at this Soviet nuclear power plant, but disaster has a long half-life.

Matthew Christopher December 11, 2024

Keddie Wye

The Wildest West

Gold! Can you dig it?

Sponsored By Visit California

Pentidattilo, Italy

Pentidattilo

A ghost town on the slopes of a hand-shaped rock is haunted by the story of a 17th-century murder.

Palisade

Little is left of this formerly bustling railroad junction on the Transcontinental Railroad.