Arizona’s strangest museum — or maybe just its rustiest — clings to a hill high above the Verde Valley. It looks like several garages exploded. Or like the ruins of an ancient junkyard have ...

Douglas, closed during The Great Depression in 1938. Mining ceased altogether in 1953. Jerome is considered a "ghost town" not only because it was once abandoned, but because of its stories about ...

Arizona’s best ghost towns aren’t just empty buildings collecting dust. They’re gold mines frozen in time, saloons where you ...

Take Jerome, for example ... Kentucky Camp used to be a mining camp, as so many ghost towns were. Gold was discovered on the eastern slope of the Santa Rita Mountains in 1874.