These abandoned and nearly-abandoned ghost towns along Route 66 connect the dots between Illinois and California, and each ...

In its earliest days in the 1880s, Temple was commonly known as “Tanglefoot” or “Mud Town,” a nickname earned through a ...

Nebraska ghost towns' stories often are unheard — and remind us about the struggles of taming the wilderness that became the ...

Thousands of artifacts, including a more than 150-year-old bottle of alcohol, were recently discovered during an excavation ...

Amid all of this juxtaposition between modern life and a town frozen in time, one thing has remained a constant: Oatman is ...

Heather Amaro was excited to rejoin her fellow investigators Josh Gates and Phil Torres as they venture across the globe for more otherworldly adventures. Amaro, who stepped in for Jessica Chobot ...

A hypnotherapist from Austin and a farmer from Olton had a vision. They now own sixteen acres in Glenrio (population: one).

Omar Villafranca is a CBS News correspondent based in Dallas. He joined CBS News in 2014 as a correspondent for Newspath. Before CBS, Villafranca worked at KXAS-TV Dallas-Fort Worth, at KOTV-TV the ...

Buying an entire town sounds unreal until you see it listed. Across the U.S., former mining camps, rail stops, and company towns still exist in a half-abandoned state. They are no longer active, but ...

The News Herald has been investigating several "ghost towns" in Bay County, Florida. A new interactive map showcases 20 lost communities. At least six communities were displaced in 1941 to make way ...

A mother and father from Oklahoma are facing murder charges that could land them behind bars for life after their 2-year-old daughter was found mauled to death by one of their mistreated dogs at their ...