There’s also the possibility that there’s a nearby ghost town you never even knew existed. Fortunately, there are various interactive maps that can point explorers in the right direction.

I mapped six such sites on a map to create Ghost Town Road Trip ... and is now preserved as Old Cahaba Archaeological Site. The layout of the original streets is marked for visitors to drive ...

Geotab recently mapped out more than 3800 of these ghost towns across the U.S., diving into what areas have the highest concentration of long-abandoned settlements. When you click on each state ...

It's not often a 'ghost town' gets so many visitors ... piecing together the original layout of the town using old maps and context clues. "It's like a living jigsaw puzzle," said McKee, who ...

Think of “ghost towns” and images of dusty, lost-to-time towns, like those in America’s Wild West, may come to mind. Indeed, in the second half of the 19th century, a slew of boomtown-gone ...

I wrote about the towns I visited in northeast Alabama individually – their histories are linked below – then created this map. Note: Many of the buildings that remain in ghost towns are on ...