Since 1962, a fire has burned beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, a once-bustling mining town that is now home to only a handful ...

Russell Lee's 1946 photographs shows the squalor coal miners and their families lived in before mechanization.

Once a bustling copper town, this rural Arizona community near Tucson now draws attention for its low costs, desert scenery, ...

Explore Virginia’s forgotten ghost towns where echoes of history linger in ruins, trails, and silent riverbanks.

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 ...

While it's not unusual to find once-booming abandoned desert mining settlements in Utah, this one still has a pulse. It is by ...

The University of Arizona says it has received almost $15 million to help ease health threats posed by products from mining.

A Las Vegas man is working to restore Goodsprings, Nevada, loved for its recreation in a popular video game "Fallout: New Vegas." ...

GREENFIELD, Wis. — Since the arrival of a mine that supplies sand to hydraulic fracturing sites in distant shale fields, this tiny township has gained a new dump, recycling center, snowplow and salt ...

Climate change is not just changing our atmosphere, it is changing the fabric of many rural towns nationwide. As the United States has moved to renewable sources of energy, it has strained the coal ...

The Colorado mountain town is undergoing massive changes in a bid to compete with the likes of Aspen and Vail, although not ...

Kolmanskop, a once-thriving diamond mining town nestled in the Namib Desert, is now a ghost town visited only by tourists.