If you are a fan of ghost towns, head to this Montana once-thriving mining community near Helena that is full of Old West ...

Amid all of this juxtaposition between modern life and a town frozen in time, one thing has remained a constant: Oatman is ...

The Old West was giving way to the modern world just as a new medium arrived to capture its lore on celluloid: Motion pictures. Thanks to Hollywood movies, westerns are arguably the film genre with ...

Ghost towns are prevalent in the Montana and other parts of the West, with 100 to more than 200 per state, but even states in the Midwest and several Eastern states have between 10 to 100 ghost towns ...

These abandoned and nearly-abandoned ghost towns along Route 66 connect the dots between Illinois and California, and each ...

The West is full of ghost towns, once-thriving places whose residents, for one reason or another, drifted away. But the West doesn't have a total lock on the frozen-in-amber village where structures ...

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 ...

Tales of the lawless West have always been a hit with tourists. Plenty of the "Old West" towns across the U.S. are more than happy to embrace their history and help visitors travel back in time to the ...

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