“I’m really happy to be out here,” Carl Tape says as he stands on a pyramid of dry gravel, 20 feet high. “I’ve been thinking about this earthquake for 10 years.” Tape, a seismologist at the University ...

Many of these once-thriving communities were deserted due to economic collapse, natural calamity, or shifts in industry.

Venture into the haunting Treadwell Mine on a remote Alaskan island! Discover the remnants of this abandoned mining complex, ...

May 7—MAGGIE VALLEY — Getting the former Ghost Town property back on the market was a long journey for Jill McClure, the niece of the late Alaska Presley. That's meant both literally and figuratively, ...