It turns out that California has its fair share of them. WorldAtlas recently compiled a list of seven bizarrely named towns in California. Here’s what they selected, and a few places we think ...

By the 1950s, most ghost towns on our list were completely abandoned. But California City was just getting started. In the thick of the post-World War II real estate boom in California ...

The Santa Cruz Mountains in California have a haunted history. The mountains that rise between Silicon Valley and the Pacific coast once held a variety of small towns that are only memories now.

Take a step back in time while visiting these historic – and slightly spooky – ghost towns. While the term "ghost town" may sound like a village haunted by spirits, it actually refers to an ...