The Mapes was born a grand old lady. Built in the mid-1940s from 20-year-old plans, the building's art deco style was already ...

National parks are on almost every traveler’s bucket list. After all, these protected and frankly sacred pockets of the U.S.

Wild West boomtowns that turned into hollow relics hold a macabre grip on travelers' imaginations, and Utah's abandoned sites ...

Late on December 5, Peardale-Chicago Park and Ophir Hill Fire departments were dispatched for an individual who had fallen ...

Lake Tahoe is beautiful, but this cute little mountain town in the Sierra Nevada is charming in a different way.

A three-book series contains the history of some 69 railroads, both large and small, that have operated in the Silver State.

Abandoned towns or ghost towns are powerful reminders of America’s frontier past, mining booms, industrial failures, and ...

The houses are worn by weather and time, photographed in isolation like forgotten monuments. They have a haunted feel: Windows are boarded on Victorian-era turrets; paint flakes off the towering ...

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 ...

Nevada offers more than just slot machines and neon lights. Scattered across its high desert, ghost towns and forgotten structures stand as testaments to boom-and-bust cycles that swept through mining ...

I still remember the first time I heard the whispers about the Green Shack, that long-gone restaurant on Fremont Street that seemed to exist outside of time. Once a bustling spot that fed generations ...

The human remains found stashed at an abandoned Philadelphia school have been confirmed to belong to missing beauty queen Kada Scott — as authorities reveal new details about her alleged kidnapper.