Once a thriving town, St. Thomas, Nevada vanished beneath the rising waters of Lake Mead—only to reappear decades later as the lake receded. Now, its abandoned buildings, crumbling foundations, and ...

Photographer Francesca Di Stefano has taken amazing photos of the ghost towns and valleys in Nevada. The Silver State is littered with abandoned mining towns and camps that were thriving during ...

Nevada is home to more than 600 ghost towns. Most are vestiges of the region’s mining boom-and-bust era, which began with the discovery of gold near present-day Dayton in 1849 and continued into ...