Many of the west’s ghost towns were abandoned after the Gold Rush, as mines closed and the promise of riches disappeared. In some cases, water supplies dried up. Fires ravaged others.

Many of the west’s ghost towns were abandoned after the Gold Rush, as mines closed and the promise of riches disappeared. In some cases, water supplies dried up.

Virginia City is the West's best-preserved gold mining town from the 1860s. Visitors can walk the same boardwalks that desperate vigilantes once roamed, and guests are transported to a time when ...

Bodie is a cursed ghost town. Pilfer anything from one of the old sun-bleached buildings north of Mono Lake -- a nail, part of a clock or even an old bottle -- and bad luck latches onto you forever.

According to “Big Book of West Virginia Ghost Stories,” a provost from the 1990s, Dr. Kathy Butler, had some of her own spooky experiences, once even hearing her own name whispered by a ...

More than 2,000 residents abandoned this silver- and gold-mining town in the 1920s, but not Annabelle. Her father was a cattleman, a mining boss and a member of the town’s elite.