Garnet, Montana, is one of the best ghost towns in the West, and it offers a chance to see what life was like in a 19th-century mining town. Once home to 1,000 residents and 13 saloons, Garnet was ...

Farther north, in the Keweenaw, moss now carpets what used to be streets, and wind moves through empty doorframes like a ...

Today, there isn’t much left of the town, but there are still a few old buildings, like a diner, a café, a motel, and a gas station. You can see the remnants of all the people who got their kicks on ...

Picture a town that exploded from nothing to thousands of people in just three years, only to vanish like a desert mirage.

From abandoned mining villages to entire islands that have been left to rot, here are some of the creepiest ghost towns around the world.

Dawson Forest’s abandoned gold mines offered a mix of dangers: deep water, unstable rock, sudden drop-offs, and shafts that ...