Brothers George and Michael Minkel immigrated from Baden-Württemberg, Germany, to the Wheatland-Morton township area in 1861, about the same time as several other settlers from Canada. William ...

In the wake of Super Typhoon Yolanda, thousands of housing projects remain unfinished a decade later, leaving families in limbo. This video explores the ongoing struggle to complete these projects and ...

Moonville Tunnel entrance surrounded by green leaves - Zack Frank/Shutterstock Hidden in a remote area in Vinton, Ohio's most forested county, is an abandoned ghost town known as one of the scariest ...

Picture yourself driving down a dark Ohio road on a cold winter night. Snow falls softly while fog creeps across your windshield. But wait, is that shadow moving on its own? Ohio’s spooky roads aren’t ...

In 2004, Nazareth Speedway was shut down after hosting racing events for nearly a century. Some 20 years later, the oval course in eastern Pennsylvania has been taken over by nature, and it's pretty ...

I first learned to listen for history on a foggy morning when my granddad parked beside a collapsed foundation and said, “Put your ear to the bricks.” I did, and I swear the past hummed back at me ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Washburn Tunnel, which runs under the Houston Ship Channel and connects the cities of Galena Park with Pasadena, is the last remaining traffic tunnel in the entire state of Texas.

In 1963, Illinois naturalist May Watts, inspired by walking paths she’d seen in Britain, wrote a letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune, suggesting converting a stretch of abandoned railroad into ...

There is a surprisingly large collection of abandoned places in Ohio: buildings, homes, and entire towns. Over the years, we have covered several of them. Many have been reclaimed by nature and some ...

Garnet, Montana, is one of the best ghost towns in the West, and it offers a chance to see what life was like in a 19th-century mining town. Once home to 1,000 residents and 13 saloons, Garnet was ...

The story of a 60-year struggle to convert abandoned railroads into trails for cycling and walking. Edward Norton narrates the story of one of the most unlikely social movements in American history: ...

In Taiwan, the Sesame Hotel, also known as The Abandoned Ghost Palace, stands as one of Asia's most haunted buildings. Built in 1976 during an economic boom, this five-star resort was abandoned after ...