Conservatives may hate the EPA, but it was created...  ...ollution can be by featuring five different ghost towns that have been destroyed by environmental disaste...

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Image Credit: Michael GablerA ghost town is, by de...  ...itself invokes thoughts of old, gray, cob-webbed towns where only the spirits of the dead walk the stree...  ...specific reasons. In some cases, they were small towns built around the time of the gold rush that just...  ...r all who visit. Here are 7 of t...

Some fictional places in which TV shows are set are highlighted to make us want to go there, sometimes just for a look, sometimes it's a place we'd like to live. If the locale ever changed, you'd feel like a character di...

Many cities adopt a "sister city" across the pond. These matchups between the New World and the Old World serve as a sort of cultural exchange. People in the village of Dull, in Perthshire, Scotland, have shown their sen...

The following is an article from the book History'...  ...addest of the bad, meanest of the mean, Wild West towns . Some historians say that the Wild West wasn't as...  ...ollywood, but there's no doubt that some frontier towns were beyond the immediate reach of the law -place...  ...D, SOUTH DAKOTA Like many o...

We've all heard of underground societies, but...  ...miles with 200+ underground villages and tunnel towns complete with hidden passages, secret rooms and...

While many towns were built on corruption, greed and scandal, few...  ...in a frontier town. Maynard convinced the other townspeople to rename the city Seattle after the Duwamps Chie...

io9 takes a look at cities with something different, whether it's a colony of feral dogs who live side-by-side with city residents, a town on fire, underground office spaces, or microorganisms that flourish in toxic slud...

The US has its share of strange town names. If you've made a few road trips, you've no doubt encountered some of them. Test your knowledge of these strangely-named cities in this Lunchtime Quiz from mental_floss. I score...