Mining towns often sprang up overnight across the U.S. during the gold, silver and even copper rushes, creating dramatic tales of fortune, greed, sudden ruin, sickness and even death.

Nestled in California's Sierra Nevada mountains is a former mining town with an unusual name and past that will pique any ...

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

Head further north, all the way to Alaska, to see another pristine example of life in a 20th-century North American mining town (though Alaska didn’t become an official U.S. state until 1959).

Ohio's ODNR and local groups start a $2.8 million project to revitalize Glouster, turning it into a business and recreation ...

What makes “The Wickedest Town in the West” so fascinating is that its ghostly legends have earned Jerome a reputation as a hotspot for paranormal activity. Originally the United Verde Hospital built ...