Another piece of Rhode Island's abandoned transportation infrastructure – this one a familiar piece of scenery on millions of daily commutes each year – will be gone by the fall. The state Department ...

The story of a 60-year struggle to convert abandoned railroads into trails for cycling and walking. Edward Norton narrates the story of one of the most unlikely social movements in American history: ...

Curator of the Friends of the DHS Library Author Series Historical writer Joanne Hardy will be presenting her new book, "Abandoned," this Thursday at the Desert Hot Springs Library. I had the ...

In 1963, Illinois naturalist May Watts, inspired by walking paths she’d seen in Britain, wrote a letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune, suggesting converting a stretch of abandoned railroad into ...

The Great Basin National Heritage Area is a bleak, lonely place. Lost in the West Desert between Utah and Nevada, surrounded by towering peaks and wide-open skies, it's remote, sparse, and empty. It ...

Picture a town that exploded from nothing to thousands of people in just three years, only to vanish like a desert mirage. Rhyolite, Nevada, was that place, a Wild West boomtown born from gold fever ...