No souvenir-shop spookery. Just 13 serious sites with troubled histories, credible accounts and field-tested logistics for travelers who like to tackle spooky season head-on.

Discover America’s most hauntingly beautiful ghost towns this fall. From California’s Bodie to West Virginia’s Thurmond, ...

Explore Wyoming’s forgotten ghost towns where dusty streets and empty saloons still whisper stories of the Old West.

Nevada's mining history has resulted in hundreds of ghost towns in the Silver State. One was named among the spookiest places ...

Many of Washington's ghostly sites sit in scenic, windswept corners of the state, offering a mix of family-friendly strolls ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — For years, the old Jewish center and Jacksonville Job Corps Center in Jacksonville’s Springfield area has sat vacant and boarded up. Nearby residents and visitors across Duval ...

It’s not possible to access Auger Mines until you complete the main mission, Shadow of the Mountain. If you stumble upon an Auger Mine before completing Shadow of the Mountain, you’ll be unable to ...

Two men will be charged in connection with the death of a missing 17-year-old girl whose body was found on an abandoned property in Fayette County last year. Charges of interference with the custody ...

A senior rescue dog was left "scared and confused" at the veterinary clinic after wrongly assuming he had been returned to the shelter. Britt, a pet owner and animal rescue advocate based in ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Puppies abandoned in Lexington. Lexington Fayette Animal Care and Control posted this on Facebook, stating that the puppies were left outside an apartment complex over the ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis police say a 17-year-old boy was found shot early Monday in an abandoned apartment in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood on the city’s near northeast side.

KINSTON, N.C. (WNCT) — While students across Eastern North Carolina got back to school Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, one abandoned school in Kinston is being repurposed. Kinston Teens Founder and CEO Chris ...