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

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

The town was completely abandoned by 1956 and the desert began to reclaim it. Just off the coast of Nagasaki is Hashima Island, also called “Battleship Island,” a coal-mining location that ...

Once bustling with the chatter of miners and the clinking of pickaxes, Colorado's abandoned mining towns stand today as silent witnesses to a time of great ambition and bitter disappointment.

SALT LAKE CITY — At the mouth of Dragon Canyon, ruins of a once-bustling mining town still remain. The town — known as Silver City — was home to stores, hotels, restaurants, a post office ...

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From Wrangell, Alaska, to Oatman, Arizona, you'll be surprised to see what these places looked like a century ago.

It was once the only town in the area and served as a camp for mining prospectors in the Artillery Mountains range. It never expanded the way other Arizona ghost towns once had, housing only a ...

Snake River Golf and Gem Mining, an abandoned mini-golf entertainment complex off Highway 17S in Myrtle Beach has been abandoned for years but will re-open under new ownership soon. A water tower ...