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Calico
A restored silver ghost town in the Mojave
Calico, in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California, boomed as a silver-mining camp in the 1880s before the price of silver collapsed and emptied it. Restored in the 1950s by Walter Knott of Knott's Berry Farm, it is now a county regional park and a popular "living" ghost town of weathered and rebuilt storefronts.