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

Grant Hardin wore an outfit designed to look like a law enforcement officer, which let him bypass security and get out of the ...

Porter-Norton is a founding member of the SouthWEST Opioid Response District (SWORD) board of directors, which is deploying ...

In the southeastern Utah desert famous for red rock arches and canyon labyrinths, the long-dormant uranium mining industry is ...

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

Tucked away on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula sits Port Townsend, a Victorian-era maritime gem that feels like stepping into ...

Enrollment is plummeting at lesser-known universities, taking down the local businesses they had fostered.

Deane also cited the decline in popularity of the "wild west" theme in as a reason why Ghost Town Village was closed. As the abandoned park is private property, it is unlawful to enter the area ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can probably name some of the abandoned cities of the ... This mining town of 200 workers and their families in Western Australia produced asbestos, a building material in high demand in ...

More recently, in western Pennsylvania on Dec. 2, a 64-year-old woman searching for her missing cat died after falling into an abandoned mine through an opening that was about the size of a ...