Rhyolite, a ghost town near Beatty and Death Valley in Southern Nevada, was named one of the spookiest places in the United States by RV Trader, an online shop for recreational vehicles. RV Trader ...

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 ...

As Halloween approaches, people may be looking for some spooky exploring to do in the Silver State. Luckily for Nevadans, their home state has hundreds of ghost towns perfect for a scare or historical ...

Drowned valleys and fenced deserts hide drowned towns traded for dams and nuclear tests, where progress left streets and ...

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 ...

I usually try to generalize my columns where I can, rather than make them too specific to one place or person. However, this week I am going to make an exception to that rule, since we have had such a ...