Walter Knott never set out to build a theme park - but a series of smart choices and lucky breaks led him and wife Cordelia Knott to building one of California's earliest and most popular tourist ...

If you happen to be passing through the Lone Star State, you might want to check out this abandoned town. It's only visible ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The abandoned 1912 high school building in Toya, Texas, now sits empty in the West Texas ghost town. Toya, once a booming railroad ...

Gold had been discovered in the Sawtooth Mountains. It was 1879, thirty years after the California Gold Rush, and dozens of people from the southern United States, had come to central Idaho seeking ...

If you think you've seen or heard a ghost haunting the North State, you're not alone. People who look after some of the North State's oldest hotels, houses, public buildings and even an entire 'ghost' ...

Gold panning is one of those activities that sounds better in theory than in practice, right up until the moment you actually ...

The best Washington ghost towns are those that are abandoned or nearly so, with just traces of human history left behind — a weathered church, a crumbling storefront, or just the outlines of old ...

A still-full 150-year-old bottle unearthed in the Utah ghost town of Alta was taste-tested by archaeologists and a distillery in the area.The corked bottle, dated between 1870 and 1890, was found ...

As a kid my grandparents took my brother and I fishing every summer and the days we didn’t fish were reserved for going to ghost towns. Even though it was considered bad luck to ...