They import rodeo style work boots from León, Mexico — considered the leather manufacturing capital of the world.

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 ...

The eerie remains of two abandoned theme parks still stand in remote regions of Japan. They were discovered and documented by ...

A wild-west themed amusement park in Maggie Valley may see a revival, according to the National Amusement Park Historical Association. Regional travel guide website Blue Ridge Mountain Life noted that ...

Once thriving with mining, farming or railways, it all came to an end in these places. Such is the history of Australia's ...

In a way, ghost towns from the wild west are the best preserved footprints of the frontier we now only experience through textbooks and encyclopedias, their crumbling architecture and wayward ...

Artifacts that date back to 16,000 years ago have been recently found at the ghost town site of Sunrise, Wyoming — older than ...

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

The population of Betoota will go from zero to 500 when the tiny outpost hosts its first music festival at its storied ...

Just under 150 years ago, the discovery of gold in this remote part of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California saw people flock to the area in 1876. Just three years later, it had ...

Monida flourished in the early 1900s, thanks to its role as a staging point for tourists heading to Yellowstone National Park.