Arizona ghost town where friendly wild donkeys roam the streets, old Route 66 history lingers, and the desert past still ...

A childhood spent in the New Jersey Pine Barrens sparked a love for history, with graveyard picnics revealing the stories of ghost towns and forgotten communities across the state.

Across America, towns share names with famous NJ places. Discover surprising stories behind these namesakes and what makes ...

Sam Harris, a Wyoming photographer and Army veteran, finds beauty in abandoned places, like the ghost town of Sage. In Harris’ own words, the town ...

A modern-day gold rush boom was on full display at Calico California Days, a kitschy celebration of early settlements held at Calico Ghost Town, the legendary San Bernardino County mining hub that ...

As he headed to a construction job in Atlantic City with his cousin on a cold Friday in December, Rene Dominguez Facundo had plenty of reasons to want to get back home to Bridgeton as soon as possible ...

The United States is home to more than 4,500 ghost towns, settlements that were once thriving but are now abandoned due to economic decline, the closure of mines, changes in transportation routes, or ...

I was born and raised in Parkersburg and I’ve been proud to admit that fact. When I was 18, I moved to Huntington to attend college at Marshall. Ten years later, I moved to Palm Beach County, Fla., ...

The Summit County Historical Society is hosting a Feb. 10 book launch for authors Bill Fountain and Sandra Mather for a book in their “Historical Landscapes” series called “Ghost Towns and Townsites: ...

A middle-aged man makes peace with his childhood trauma in Perrotta’s stellar latest (after Tracy Flick Can’t Win). Accomplished novelist Jimmy Perrini looks back on his youth in bucolic Creamwood, ...

When Jerry Craghead stepped on a mine grate called a grizzly, in a tunnel in the Eagle Mine at Gilman, Colorado, the grizzly gave way and Craghead nearly plunged down the deep shaft below. The miner ...

Several men and two teenagers have been arrested in connection with a shooting that left a 19-year-old dead outside a Costco in Phoenix last month. A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration ...