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

These Five Former Boomtowns Invite You To Step Into the State’s Mining History On the northern edge of the Mojave Desert sits the remnants of a former boomtown. There, visitors are greeted by the ...

Isolation has been an undercurrent of the Netflix series Stranger Things since its 2016 debut. Although the action ostensibly ...

Not every town gets to stick around forever. Some start with a bang—gold rush fever, a mining boom, a railroad deal—only to fizzle out just as fast. Others fade slowly, little by little, until one day ...

Ghost towns from deserts to Arctic ice show how quickly busy streets fall silent, leaving history to whisper through empty ...

Hermosa, South Dakota, 1927.George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images Small mining towns flourished at the start of the 1900s. Up until the 1930s, horse-drawn carriages and automobiles could still be ...