After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Only a few remaining items alert intrepid explorers that a town once stood in this region.

North America's first Indigenous-owned winery is located within Canada's only desert-like ecosystem.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

A hulking remnant of Alaska's industrial gold mining boom in the 1920s.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.