Walter Knott never set out to build a theme park - but a series of smart choices and lucky breaks led him and wife Cordelia Knott to building one of California's earliest and most popular tourist ...

Readers offered anecdotes and information about the abandoned town of Wetappo, prompting further investigation by the News Herald. Discrepancies arose regarding the pronunciation of "Wetappo" and the ...

The remnants of Nevada’s abandoned boomtowns and settlements are scattered across the desert, if you know where to look. Experts say that Nevada has up to 600 ghost towns throughout the state. Many ...

Did you know that Florida is full of ghost towns? Some websites list more than 200 of them in the state. Ghost towns are cities, towns or villages that were abandoned for a particularly interesting, ...