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Visit Sulphurdale, Utah
Sulphurdale is a ghost town in Beaver County, Utah, United States. Sulphurdale was established in 1870, but mining did not begin in large scale until 1883. Homes, a school, a store and company offices were built in town. Despite the heavy mining activity, high quality sulfur was difficult to find. Production slowed in the 1940s and 1950s, and in 1966, the mine and mil... -
Visit Swansea, California
Swansea is an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California. It is located 8.5 miles (14 km) south of New York Butte, at an elevation of 3,661 ft (1,116 m). Swansea was a boomtown located on the eastern shore of Owens Lake. Spawned by the success of the silver mining operations in the nearby Cerro Gordo Mines in the late 1860s, Swansea became a hub for smelting ... -
Visit Swansea, Arizona
Swansea is a Ghost town in La Paz County in the U.S. state of Arizona. It was settled around 1909 in what was then the Arizona Territory. It served as a mining town as well as a location for processing and smelting the copper ore taken from the nearby mines. Today Swansea is under the protection of the Bureau of Land Management, and constitutes the Swansea Town Site S... -
Visit Taman Festival, Bali, Indonesia
Taman Festival was supposed to be a massive theme park with a large pool, roller coaster and many more fun attractions. Nowadays it consists of only leftover walls, graffitti everywhere and shattered glass. Make sure to have full shoes not to hurt your feet. The place is nice to walk around and feel the thrill of an abandoned, empty place. -
Visit Ten-Mile, Transcontinental Railroad, Utah
Ten-Mile, Utah is a ghost town located in the western part of Box Elder County, Utah. It was established by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) on April 1869. Chinese railroad workers built a small community and facilities to support the track section. The town relied on the railroad through its entire history. In 1904 the site was abandoned when the Lucin Cutoff was ... -
Visit Teriberka, Russia
Teriberka is a rural locality (aselo) in Kolsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Barents Sea coast, at the mouth of the river Teriberka. It has a lot of abandoned building. As a settlement, Teriberka was first mentioned circa 1523. Eyewitnesses from that time period confirmed the appearance of permanent Russian settlers. However, according to other ... -
Visit Terlingua, Texas
Terlingua is a mining district in southwestern Brewster County, Texas, United States. It is located near the Rio Grande and the villages of Lajitas and Study Butte, Texas, as well as the Mexican village of Santa Elena. The discovery of cinnabar, from which the metal mercury is extracted, in the mid-1880s brought miners to the area, creating a city of 2,000 people. The... -
Camp at Texas Spring Campground, Death Valley National Park, California
Texas Spring Campground has 92 sites and is located east of Furnace Creek Visitor Center. Sells out by noon on most days. -
Visit Thompson Springs, Utah
Thompson Springs, also officially known for a time as just Thompson, is a small census-designated place in central Grand County, Utah, United States. The population was 39 at the 2010 census. The town is just north of the east-west highway route shared by Interstate 70, U.S. Route 6 and U.S. Route 50, between Crescent Junction and Cisco. Moab, the county seat, is 37 m... -
Visit Thurmond Depot, West Virginia
Thurmond is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States, on the New River. The population was five at the 2010 census. During the heyday of coal mining in the New River Gorge, Thurmond was a prosperous town with a number of businesses and facilities for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. The town was the filming location for John Sayles' 1987 movieMatewansinc... -
Visit Times Beach, Missouri
Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of St. Louis and 2 miles (3 km) east of Eureka. Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to a dioxin contamination that made national headlines. It was the largest civilian exposure to dioxin in the country's histo... -
Visit Tomboy, Colorado
Tomboy is a ghost town in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States. Tomboy was a mining town located 2 mi (3.2 km) east of Telluride. At an elevation of 11,509 ft (3,508 m), Tomboy is one of the highest ghost towns in the United States. Located in a mountainous region known as the Savage Basin, the settlement was originally named "Savage Basin Camp". The Tomboy Mine... -
Visit Tonopah Historic Mining Park, Nevada
The Tonopah Historic Mining Park is on the site of Belle and Jim Butler's original mining claim which started the rush to Tonopah making it the "Queen of the Silver Camps." Great area for mountain biking and hiking too. Admission: Visitors Center: Free Walking Tour: Adults $5.00Seniors $4.00Students (8-17) $3.00Children (7 & under) FreeVeterans/Military Free ... -
Visit Tugboat Graveyard in Rossville, Staten Island, NYC
Staten Island's Tugboat Graveyard is one of the New York Cities most impressive “boneyard,” or ship graveyard. Active since the 1930s, the old Witte Marine Equipment Company — now Donjon Marine Company — is unique not only for its continuous marine salvaging but also for the number and variety of vessels that have been pushed into the muck. The... -
Visit Tumco Historic Mining Town, California
Tumco is an abandoned gold mining town and is also one of the earliest gold mining areas in California. It has a history spanning some 300 years, with several periods of boom and bust. Originally named Hedges, the town was completely abandoned in 1905, victim to speculative over-expansion and increasing debt. Renamed Tumco in 1910 -- after The United Mines Company -- ...
