Ghost Towns

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

The only way to visit this old resort hotel is with scuba gear.

An ancient rogue artist community hidden next to one of the world's most glitzy and glamorous cities.