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Visit Pie Town, New Mexico
Pie Town is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located along U.S. Highway 60 in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 186. Its name comes from an early bakery that specialized in dried-apple pies; it was established by Clyde Norman in the early 1920s. Pie Town has been noted for its colorful place n... -
Visit Pilgrim Hot Springs, Alaska
Pilgrim Hot Springs is a ghost town in the interior of the Seward Peninsula of northwestern Arctic Alaska. Also known as Kruzgamepa, it is located on the southeast bank of the Kruzgamepa River, about 8 miles (13 km) south of milepost 65 of the Kougarok Road. The location gained prominence in the early 20th century because of its thermal hot springs, which made agricul... -
Off-road to Pine Grove, Nevada
Pine Grove is a ghost town in Lyon County, Nevada, United States. In 1866, gold-bearing rock was discovered in the area by William Wilson. The Wheeler Mine was established in the next year. Early settlers named the camp after the nearby Pine Grove Hills. By 1868, a post office had opened, along with a weekly newspaper. The population at the time was 200. Two steam-pow... -
Visit Pioneer, Nevada
Pioneer is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Beginning as a mining camp near the Mayflower and other gold mines in northern Bullfrog Hills, it became a formal town in 1908 and flourished briefly until fire destroyed much of its business district in 1909 and litigation delayed mining. Population peaked at an estimated 2,500 in 1908, and the commu... -
Visit Pomona, Namibia
Pomona is a ghost town in southern Namibia south of Lüderitz on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It is about 15 km south of Elizabeth Bay, Namibia, in an area called Sperrgebiet, a diamond mining zone with restricted access. Settlements that lie abandoned in the Sperrgebiet and can be visited only on an organised tour. Around 1910, at the time of the diamond rush... -
Visit Poverty Flat, Arizona
Poverty Flatis has ruins at the southern end of Coyote Buttes, Arizona. It has an old windmill and rusty cars. To access Poverty Flat take Paw Hole Road (BLM 1079) near the soutern part of House Rock Valley Road. From the north take House Rock Valley Road 16.5 miles to Paw Hole Road (BLM 1079) and turn left. If coming from the south at 89A take House Rock Road 13.2 m... -
Visit Prypiat (Chernobyl), Ukraine
The Chernobyl Nuclear Plant near the now abandoned city of Prypiat in the Ukraine was the site of the most devastating nuclear accident known to the world on April 26, 1986 when explosions and fire following a test at the facility released significant quantities of radioactive matter and gases into the atmosphere. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 4,0... -
Visit Pueblo Fantasma, Real de Catorce, Mexico
Pueblo Fantasma is a derelict mining complex that is now a ghost town near Real de Catorce, Mexico. -
Walk across Puente de Ojuela, Mexico
Ojuela was a small mining settlement located northwest of the city of Durango, Durango in northern Mexico. The settlement is now a well known as a ghost town as a result of the ore being exhausted. Currently the main buildings and other structures are in ruins. It is possible to visit this location and recognize the old church, the foundations of the miners houses, th... -
Visit Puerto Hambre, Chile
Port Famine (Puerto Hambre) is arguably Chile's oldest ghost town. It was founded in the Strait of Magellan in 1584 by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. Starvation and the cold climate killed all of the inhabitants. The Englishnavigator Sir Thomas Cavendish landed at the site in 1587. He found only ruins of the settlement, and renamed the place Port Famine. Puerto Hambre, or... -
Visit Pyramiden, Russia
Pyramiden is an abandoned Russian settlement and coal-mining community on the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway. Founded by Sweden in 1910 and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927, Pyramiden was closed in 1998 and has since remained largely abandoned with most of its infrastructure and buildings still in place. Since 2007 there have been efforts to make it a tourist attract... -
Visit Pyramiden, Svalbard, Norway
Pyramiden is a Russian settlement and coal-mining community on the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway. Founded by Sweden in 1910 and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927, Pyramiden was closed in 1998 and has since remained largely abandoned with most of its infrastructure and buildings still in place. Since 2007 there have been efforts to make it a tourist attraction. Pyrami... -
Visit Quneitra, Syria
Quneitra is the largely destroyed and abandoned capital of the Quneitra Governorate in south-western Syria. The city became a ghost town after the 1967 Six Day War and subsequent Yom Kippur war in 1973. The ruins were left in place, and a museum has been built to memorialize the destruction. Billboards are maintained at the ruins of many buildings and the town is effe... -
Visit Red Wing Ruins, Colorado
Red Wing is a community in Huerfano County, Colorado that has some old ruins (ghost "town"). It lies southwest of Gardner and just east of the Sangre de Cristo Range along County Road 580 in the Huerfano River Valley. The area has many interesting geological features, such as faults, outcrops of Dakota sandstone, and igneous intrusions. -
Visit Rhyolite, Nevada
Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern edge of Death Valley. The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold rush, thousands of gold-seeker...
