Ghost Towns

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

A ghost village sits atop a mountain within Jordan’s largest biosphere reserve.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

This nearly abandoned "company town" is a ghost of Puerto Rico's once-lucrative sugar industry.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.