Hidden across quiet backroads and forgotten landscapes, these abandoned American places reveal stories time refused to erase.

Ghost towns from deserts to Arctic ice show how quickly busy streets fall silent, leaving history to whisper through empty ...

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 ...

Cumberland, B.C. was built on coal mining—both literally and practically. Thousands of workers were employed and millions of ...

This has enormous potential as a sustainable energy source. Schemes such as the mine water district heat network in Gateshead ...

The town of Belt has worked with the state for decades to tackle issues left by the Anaconda Coal Mine. A new multimillion-dollar water treatment facility will finally fix that. The plant will clean ...

In a small Appalachian community whose first settlers arrived in 1830, a place transformed by mining in the decades that ...

The best Washington ghost towns are those that are abandoned or nearly so, with just traces of human history left behind — a weathered church, a crumbling storefront, or just the outlines of old ...

When Emmanuel Siyabonga was a boy, he wasn't fussy about the type of job he wanted when he grew up. Other boys dreamed of being footballers, doctors, soldiers. All Siyabonga wanted, he says, was a job ...