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See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

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

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

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

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

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

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

The rusted hull of a WWII German destroyer pokes above the surface in a Norwegian fjord.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

This rusted shipwreck directly in front of a century-old abandoned lighthouse looks almost surreal.

Inside this museum is an ongoing excavation of an ancient shipwreck.

The remains of the wrecked steam trawler can be found on the beach at low tide.