The Santa Cruz Mountains in California have a haunted history. The mountains that rise between Silicon Valley and the Pacific coast once held a variety of small towns that are only memories now.

(Courtesy of Scott Peterson)| St. Elmo, located less than 83 miles southeast of Aspen, Colorado, is one of the state's best-preserved ghost towns. Formed in 1880 for miners in search of gold and ...

Real estate agent Conor Brennan had never heard of Campo, California, until he got a call ... The area is almost a ghost town, though it's not entirely empty — its center is home to around ...

Today Bodie is on of the biggest and best preserved ghost towns in the west. It still contains more than 170 buildings and is a paradise for photographers. There are no tourist shops or the like.

Calico Ghost Town near Barstow will celebrate its 4th annual California Days event over Presidents Day weekend. Officials with the San Bernardino County Regional Parks said the event is scheduled ...