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.

This simple coal mining town met its fate in 1962 when a fire, started by the city-sanctioned burning of a local landfill, ignited one of the old mining ... the threat of sinkholes and carbon ...

Take a step back in time while visiting these historic – and slightly spooky – ghost ... old, abandoned city. America's western states are full of these towns; many were founded during the ...