People are fascinated with abandoned cities. There’s just something deliciously creepy about a mysteriously empty area: mist gathering in doorways no one has passed through for years, vines overtaking ...

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 ...

With their crumbling facades and desolate landscapes, ghost towns have always held a peculiar allure. Their histories entice inquisitive minds, regardless of whether these communities perished due to ...

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, ...

As early settlers flocked to the American West to extract the land's rich resources, small towns spread across the landscape. Pre-automobile, residents of these newly inhabited places needed amenities ...

There are a number of "dying" towns in Kansas where houses have been left vacant or abandoned as a result of an exodus of residents, who have moved on to larger metropolitan areas in search of more ...

The problem with relying on past trends to predict the future is that they bank on the status quo in perpetuity. When a study predicts future population decline will decimate some of the rural ...