Across the US, there are dozens of delipidated, vacant towns that are still standing despite their residents fleeing decades – and sometimes centuries – ago.
Visitors can still creep around the eerie locations today, and see the crumbling saloons from the Wild West days, single-cell jails, and haunting graveyards.
In some abandoned locations, there’s still furniture in houses and litter on the ground – alongside vacant buildings which are on the brink of tumbling down.
Many are towns and camps which once bustled because of the Gold Rush, mining boom, or because of new highways being built near them. But for one reason or another, they now stand alone – giving passersby a snapshot of a by-gone era.
Here are 11 of the creepiest ghost towns scattered across the US.
Bodie, California: At its height in 1879, there were about 10,000 residents living in the gold mine town – but by 1915 it was officially described as a ghost town
Cahaba, Alabama used to be a major…
