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Visit Twin Arrows Trading Post, Arizona
Twin Arrows is a ghost town located in the central part of Arizona on U.S. Route 66 (US 66) in Coconino County between the city of Flagstaff and the town of Winslow. The area in which Twin Arrows is located was inhabited by the Hopi and Navajo tribes. The Navajo fought against the Apaches in the area. The first setters to arrive in the area of European descent were th... -
Visit Two Guns & Canyon Diablo, Arizona
Two Guns is a ghost town in Coconino County, Arizona, United States. Located on the east rim of Canyon Diablo approximately 30 mi (48 km) east of Flagstaff, Two Guns prospered as a tourist stop along Route 66. Native artifacts found at Two Guns have been dated to between 1050 and 1600 AD. As white settlers began to populate the area in the mid-19th century, Two Guns w... -
Visit Tybo, Nevada
Tybo is an unincorporated community in Nye County, Nevada, United States. Tybo is 8 miles (13 km) northwest of U.S. Route 6 and 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Warm Springs. The community was established in the 1870s as a silver mining town. Its name came from the Shoshone wordtybbaboortai-vu, meaning "white man's district". The community prospered in the 1870s; its pop... -
Visit Unionville, Nevada
Unionville is a small hamlet in Pershing County, Nevada, located south of I-80 and just west of State Route 400 on Unionville Road, with the most recent population estimate being approximately 20 people. The town's best years were during the 1870s, when it was an active mining and prospecting town serving the surrounding hilly region. For a brief time, Samuel Langhorn... -
Visit Valentine, Arizona
Valentine is located on Arizona State Route 66 (former U.S. Route 66) 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Kingman. Today there is little left of the town, but one of the most intersting things is this old diner, now closed. These diners were built in Michigan and shipped to the buyer's site. Many of them set along the Mother Road, but this is one of the few which remain. -
Visit Val-Jalbert, Quebec, Canada
Val-Jalbert is a ghost town in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. It is located 8 km (5 mi) northwest of the town of Chambord. The village was founded in 1901 and soon saw success in the pulp mill created by Damase Jalbert at the base of the Ouiatchouan Falls. However, the success was fleeting as the abrupt closure of the mill in 1927 led the desert... -
Visit Varosha, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus
Varosha is a quarter in the Cypriot city of Famagusta. It is located within Northern Cyprus. Prior to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, it was the modern tourist area of Famagusta. Its inhabitants fled during the invasion, and it has remained abandoned ever since. In the 1970s, Famagusta was the number one tourist destination in Cyprus. To cater to the increasin... -
Visit Vaughn, New Mexico
Vaughn is a virtual ghost town between Roswell and Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico. It is located at an intersection of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific railroad lines. The population was 286 at the 2020 census. -
Visit Villa Epecuén, Argentina
Villa Epecuén is like an open-air museum. You can see white salt on the ruins, rusty cars, and dead trees—everything looks frozen in time. Only one person lives there now, Pablo Novak, age 91. He walks the empty streets and shares stories with visitors, showing how quickly a place can change. Villa Epecuén was a tourist village in Buenos Aire... -
Visit Virginia City Historic District, Virginia City, Nevada
Virginia City Historic District is a National Historic Landmark encompassing the former mining villages of Virginia City and Gold Hill, both in Storey County, as well as Dayton and Silver City, both to the south in adjacent Lyon County, Nevada, United States. Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961, it is one of only six in the state of Nevada. Virginia City was... -
Visit Vulture City, Arizona
Vulture City is a ghost town situated at the site of the defunct Vulture Mine in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. Vulture Mine was a gold mine which was discovered in 1863. It was the most productive gold mine in the history of Arizona. From 1863 to 1942, the mine produced 340,000 ounces (9,638.8 kgs) of gold and 260,000 ounces (7,370.9 kgs) of silver. The min... -
Visit Waiuta, South Island, New Zealand
Waiuta is the location of a historic mining town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It is now abandoned and considered one of New Zealand's most popular ghost towns and a great tourist attraction. Located 58 km north of Greymouth and 21 km south of Reefton in Ikamatua, New Zealand, it was the site of a gold mine until 1951 but the collapse of the mi... -
Visit Warm Springs, Nevada
Warm Springs is a former town in the Tonopah Basin in Nye County, Nevada, near the mountain pass which divides the Kawich and Hot Creek ranges. It is located at the junction of U.S. Route 6 and State Route 375 (the "Extraterrestrial Highway"), around 50 miles east of Tonopah. Only two abandoned buildings remain. The first white settlement in Warm Springs was in 1866, ... -
Visit Watercress & Terrace, Transcontinental Railroad, Utah
In April of 1869, Central Pacific was closing in on building the transcontinental railroad at the agreed meeting point at Promontory Summit with Union Pacific. The 2 companies were allowed a certain amount of acreage on the sides of the track. The Central Pacific built Reno Nevada as well as Terrace and Watercress Utah. Unfortunately a lot of the towns built in the Ut... -
Visit White Oaks, New Mexico
White Oaks was once a ghost town in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States. Located on the outskirts of the Lincoln National Forest, it became a boomtown in 1879 following the discovery of gold and coal in the nearby Jicarilla Mountains. The region, abundant with game, was first roamed by the Piros Indians who made it one of their hunting grounds. However, the inva...
