The Unwondering Project
Top 10 Ghost Towns in America
Ten places we think are worth the trip, hand-picked, not an exhaustive list, just a place to start.
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Ten places we think are worth the trip, hand-picked, not an exhaustive list, just a place to start.
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California's best-preserved ghost town; roughly 170 original buildings frozen in a state of “arrested decay”
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Montana's first territorial capital, now a state park with 60-plus standing structures
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Widely considered the best-preserved ghost town in the Rockies, about 40 original buildings
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A former silver-mining boomtown restored as a San Bernardino County regional park
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A Gold Rush boomtown at the edge of Death Valley, famous for its skeletal bank ruins
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A former mercury-mining town turned ghost town on the edge of Big Bend
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A National Historic Landmark copper-mining town inside Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
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An entire 1860s gold-rush town preserved as a National Historic Landmark
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Montana's most intact ghost town, managed by the Bureau of Land Management
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