This land is your land — until a foreign mining company wants it,” writes the owner and caretaker of a historic 19th-century mining town in Inyo.

In the 1890s, the Bighorns were a vast, rugged territory with few roads beyond wagon pathways. While horses and oxen could ...

Regional travel guide website Blue Ridge Mountain Life noted that some refer to Ghost Town Village, formerly known as Ghost Town in the Sky, as a "cursed amusement park." The gloomy title refers to ...

Exploring an abandoned bridge and more of the old ghost town community ruins... more open well ...

Judy Slack, a local historian and the vice president of the Big Horn City Historical Society, said building a city on the top of Bald Mountain — a peak more ...

Jeffrey City didn’t die after the uranium bust in the 1980s. Some people just stopped looking for signs of life. The ...

From a creepy clown motel to a rainbow-colored geyser, WorldAtlas named 8 of Nevada’s most bizarre attractions. Here’s what made the list — and why.

The U.S. boasts many ghost towns with vibes like Bodie’s, such as Virginia City, Nevada and St. Elmo, in Chaffee County. Nestled in the Sawatch Range, at an elevation of 9,961 f ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

which started in 2022 and focuses on the stretch of the Beltway from the Springfield interchange (I-95/I-395/I-495) to the route 210 interchange in Maryland near National Harbor. On April 1 at ...