Downtown Lexington is an incredibly walkable area; there are also a handful of trails you can reach by foot from downtown, like the Woods Creek Trail. That said, a car is necessary if you want to ...

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Bodie State Historic Park preserves California’s most authentic ghost town in a state of “arrested decay,” offering a haunting glimpse into boom-and-bust mining history. Mono Lake’s otherworldly tufa ...

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Bodie is the quintessential ghost town, frozen in time high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once a booming gold mining town ...

The people may be long gone, but what they left behind fascinates. These five ghost towns are time capsules, giving visitors ...

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