This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as 7 of the Creepiest Ghost Towns in the United States.

The thrill of walking through a truly abandoned place is unmatched for any dedicated historian or urban explorer. Missouri ...

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But real ghosts or not, Walter Knott did built a ghost town, and he cobbled it together out of old buildings sourced from ...

The custom home in Terlingua, a former mining town and tourist attraction near the Mexican border, is asking $2.1 million ...

A Geotab analysis counts more than 500 ghost towns statewide, with the densest cluster in Wilson County near San Antonio.

In the U.S., eerie remnants of once-inhabited towns or villages exist in the form of "ghost towns," left in forgotten corners of the country. Nearly every U.S. state has some sort of ghost town, ...

Glastenbury wasn’t always a ghost town. In the 1800s, it boomed with logging, charcoal mining, and served as a vacation ...

Home ownership is a dream that, for some, feels increasingly out of reach, particularly in the midst of a turbulent economy and rising prices in many metropolitan areas. As of July, the national ...