Nevada is home to more than 600 ghost towns. Most are vestiges of the region’s mining boom-and-bust era, which began with the discovery of gold near present-day Dayton in 1849 and continued into ...

Explore Belmont and Tonopah’s mining history, ruins, and hot springs on a starry desert adventure.

While most of Nevada’s in-tact ghost towns are concentrated in the central and northern portions of the state, the remnants of several abandoned communities remain in Southern Nevada.

Home to countless boomtowns and mining communities during the mid-1800s silver and gold rushes, Nevada has over 600 ghost towns still standing today.

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called ...

The Mint Theater provides a short movie that explains how Nevada played such a large role in the nation’s mining history, complete with some details of how the railroads helped, literally ...

Nevada City and Grass Valley, siblings in Gold Country near Sacramento, have been drawing more visitors than ever.

Sure, you've heard of Bumble Bee and Tombstone, but Arizona has over 100 ghost towns. Here's what to know about seven abandoned towns.

Explore these well-preserved U.S. ghost towns, which are all open to visitors. Some of the abandoned towns offer guided tours, artifact exhibits, and reenactments.

‘The town that refused to die’ Ione got its start in 1863 — a year before Nevada became a state — as a trade and milling center after a silver strike in the nearby Shoshone Mountains.

Most in-tact ghost towns are concentrated in central and northern parts of Nevada where mining was more abundant in the late 1800s and early 1900s, said Megg Mueller, who has co-authored a book on ...