Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The abandoned 1912 high school building in Toya, Texas, now sits empty in the West Texas ghost town. Toya, once a booming railroad ...

Texas has dozens of ghost towns where buildings still stand, even though the people have been gone for generations. You can still find old schools, stores, rail depots, and homes that show how these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The main house at The Villa de la Mina, a ghost town in Terlingua, which is near Big Bend in West Texas. (Courtesy of The Villa de ...

The abandoned town of Marfa in Texas surrounded by a desert landscape - Jjay69/Shutterstock One such almost-empty town is Segovia. Located about 100 miles north of San Antonio (an iconic Texan city ...

The Lone Star State contains some unique Halloween traditions. Filled with ghost towns, haunted hotels, and spooky lore, Texas has summoned attention for its intense connection to the paranormal.

Editor’s note: Caprock Chronicles is edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article about Lubbock’s forgotten ...

There is a certain allure in visiting the relics of an abandoned town — the thrilling mix of discovery and fear of what lurks in its quiet corridors. Some ghost towns become downright terrifying to ...

A small, uninhabited town in Texas has been sold on the internet auction site, eBay, to a buyer in Italy for a little over $3m (£1.45m). The town, called Albert, is about 100km (62 miles) outside San ...

Texas is famous for leading the nation in cattle, cotton and oil, but the Lone Star State can claim another distinction more appropriate for Halloween this week: Texas not only hosts more bat species ...