"There are generations of stories — from the railroad itself and the railroad workers who built it, to the town, the timber, ...

Although the name still appears on Google Maps, Pedersen says the site is a ghost town along Old Connor’s Road, east of Pahokee. Bare Beach (1920-1925) — Known for its winter tomatoes ...

By local accounts, Texas officials’ recent deportation efforts in a Houston-area community has turned a once vibrant neighborhood into a ghost town. This isn’t the first time immigration ...

A Texas town has developed a soft spot for a hapless alligator that’s seemingly been trapped beneath their feet for over a month. The alligator was first discovered Feb. 7, near the site of a ...

James Bickerton is a Newsweek U.S. News reporter based in London, U.K. His focus is on covering news and politics in Texas, as well as ... for a new Islamic themed town near Josephine, around ...

As if it wasn't hard enough to find that forever home, prices in small towns are starting to rise too. Those looking to start new lives in the Texas Hill Country are going to have to pay a pretty ...

Located in South Africa, roughly 8.6 miles from the town of Carletonville and approximately 49 miles from Johannesburg, Blyvoor Mine once lay completely abandoned and became an eerily quiet ghost ...

She used to show the area to visitors, touting the beauty surrounding the town. “But all of this burned,” Farrar said.

OCHO RIOS, St Ann — The usual hustle and bustle on the stretch of road near White River, in this resort town, has been replaced by long periods of eerie silence. During a visit on Monday ...

The once-sleepy town of Fredericksburg has undergone a dramatic transformation from an antiquing destination to a luxurious getaway hotspot for the wealthy. The historic Hill Country town of just ...

The locally owned hotel opened its doors the same month Princess Cruises brought its largest ship to town, marking Galveston as its launch port for Caribbean routes from Texas. Hotel Lucine ...

Cactus, Texas is a small town an hour north of Amarillo on the plains of the Panhandle. Two weeks before Christmas in 2006, roughly 10% of the residents of Cactus disappeared. That December ...