Two former coal mining sites in Schuylkill County that suffered heavy environmental damage during those operations decades ago and were then abandoned, will now be restored through two state grants ...

This Arizona desert route connects ghost towns and hidden lakes in the best way, turning an ordinary drive into a scenic adventure full of surprises.

Just outside Death Valley lies the ruins of Rhyolite, Nevada, one of the most famous ghost towns in the American West. The town was founded in 1905 after a major gold discovery triggered a mining boom ...

Historic train stations across the United States are being renovated and repurposed as major transportation and civic hubs. Many of these stations once faced decline as passenger rail usage fell in ...

A bike repair workshop is giving abandoned bikes a new lease of life - as well as teaching people valuable skills. The TAG Bike Workshop in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, refurbishes second-hand cycles ...

Some Pennsylvania towns grew naturally over centuries, their identities emerging organically from geography and circumstance. Then there’s Jim Thorpe, which decided to purchase its identity wholesale ...

Some towns merely tolerate their railroads, but Midway, Kentucky built its entire personality around one, and the result is ...

Mexican authorities confirmed they have found the remnants of an Indigenous village that could date back a millennium.

In 1950, a huge open-pit copper mine opened beside a small town in Arizona. As the mine expanded over the next two decades, ...

Clive, Des Moines, Grimes, Urbandale, West Des Moines and Windsor Heights plan to petition the federal government to turn what may soon be a more than 12-mile stretch of abandoned railroad into a new ...