Ghost Towns

A Mayan village preserved for centuries in volcanic ash.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

Built during the Scottish boom in the oil industry, the village was never inhabited.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.