Ghost Towns

Animas Forks

A ghost town above 11,000 feet

Bannack

Montana's first territorial capital, now abandoned

Bodie

California's best-preserved gold-rush ghost town

Bombay Beach

A faded Salton Sea resort turned art colony

Calico

A restored silver ghost town in the Mojave

Centralia

The Pennsylvania town on top of a burning mine

Garnet

Montana's best-preserved ghost town

Goldfield

Once Nevada's largest city

Grafton

A ghost town beneath the cliffs near Zion

Jerome

The copper "ghost city" clinging to a mountain

Kennecott

Alaska's abandoned copper company town

Oatman

A Route 66 gold town roamed by wild burros

Old Cahawba

Alabama's abandoned first capital

Rhyolite

A Nevada boomtown gone in a decade

Shaniko

Oregon's "wool capital" turned ghost town

South Pass City

A Wyoming gold town near the Oregon Trail

St. Elmo

One of Colorado's best-preserved ghost towns

Terlingua

A quicksilver ghost town near Big Bend

Thurmond

A near-empty railroad town in a river gorge

Virginia City

A preserved Montana gold-rush capital