Rookhope, England
Rookhope Arch
This magnificent arch is all that remains of a former smelt mill.
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Rookhope, England
This magnificent arch is all that remains of a former smelt mill.
Isabela, Puerto Rico
La Cara del Indio honors the Taíno chief who fought bravely against the Spanish invasion of Puerto Rico.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.
Jayuya, Puerto Rico
A place to pay homage to Taíno heritage.
La Malbaie, Québec
This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.
Rockville, Utah
Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.
Drummond, Montana
This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.
Thurmond, West Virginia
Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.
Yermo, California
A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.
Weatherly, Pennsylvania
This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.
Egg Harbor City, New Jersey
This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Stanley, Idaho
See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.
Chitina, Alaska
The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.
Central City, Colorado
This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.
Earlimart, California
A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.
Bisbee, Arizona
A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.
Eagle, Alaska
This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.
Wallace, Idaho
A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.
Molson, Washington
This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.
Carthage, Missouri
When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Orchard, Colorado
In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.
Tokyo, Japan
Every color in the rainbow awaits.