This Ontario destination offers twinkling towns, snowy trails, and major cozy vibes, making it a magical spot to explore this ...

Across the globe, governments and developers have spent billions trying to build the future at mega scale. The result is often cities with no residents, airports with no passengers, and towers that ...

Silence in California is never truly empty. Out beyond the highways and coastal noise, there are places where it settles heavy, almost deliberate, as if the land itself remembers what happened there.

Pick any state in the U.S., and you'll find a ghost town — the sometimes spooky, always evocative remnants of a place that once was. Ghost towns are often a result of a once-booming industry that fell ...

Things are escalating into a standoff at Montana's state-owned ghost towns, where rising rents and theme park ambitions, along with a case of embezzlement, are frustrating the owners of some of the ...

Fayette ghost town in Michigan, with abandoned buildings to either side of a path, with a lake in the background under a blue sky - Dimitrios Karamitros/Shutterstock Michigan is no stranger to ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Visitors stroll a boardwalk in Virginia City, Mont ...

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 ...