Explore the world’s most hazardous abandoned places, where nature has been tainted by toxic waste, chemicals, and dangerous ...

BYARS, Okla. (KFOR) — Author and University of Oklahoma marketing professor Jeff Schmidt calls his weekend adventures “micro-tourism.” “It’s something you can do for $20 on a Saturday ...

Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ore was discovered. All that remains in the ghost town are empty buildings and piles of toxic waste.

In places like Oklahoma, what is so special is that people do have this deeply rooted connection to place — that I think, if you live in other places, maybe that’s in America, maybe that’s ...

OTTAWA COUNTY – The Tulsa Medical Examiner’s office is in the abandoned community of Picher on Saturday after human bones were found Friday evening. Angela Berg, a forensic anthropologist, is ...

Whenever possible he seeks; the forgotten, the abandoned, the Oklahoma towns whose populations have gone on to greener pastures. Citing reasons why some towns die, Schmidt offers, “Rivers dry up ...