Have you ever been to a ghost town?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Saw a couple this weekend. Rural North Dakota is unsurprisingly full of ghost towns. Kind of weird seeing things like old post offices and schools in disrepair and falling apart. Often there's still inhabitants in the town technically because there's still some farms in the area but it can't really be regarded as a "town" anymore.

A few I saw:

Burt, ND
Raleigh, ND
Heil, ND
Leith, ND (not quite a ghost town yet as a bar is still open but nearing there. You might've heard of this place a few years ago as a white supremacist tried to buy up property and move his followers in and take over the population: 15 town. It failed.)

If you're ever driving through I-94 in ND there's a near ghost town you can see just off the Interstate in Stutsman County: Crystal Springs. It today consists of only a church and a single house that's still occupied, but there's some cool abandoned buildings scattered around the area too.

Also here's a site to check out if this intrigues you: http://www.ghostsofnorthdakota.com

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

No, but I have been to a ghost mall or two.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Italy is full of tiny villages that are very depopulated like the ones you cited in North Dakota, but very few actual ghost towns. One of those ghost towns, though, Craco, is now very famous because it's a popular filming location, most notably when they shot part of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ" there. However I've never been there.

[PragmaticPopulist]

Yes. I've been to Daniels, Maryland.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

I don't think so. Not really any ghost towns out here. The only places that have been abandoned went underwater thanks to damming the river.

[morgankingsley]

no

[Joe Republic]

Rhyolite, NV

St. Thomas, NV - this town was submerged under Lake Mead after the completion of the Hoover Dam, but now that the lake water levels have dramatically receded, you can visit the remains of the town once again.

[The Dowager Mod]

There is an abandoned town just down the road from here called Doodletown, seriously.

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

Yeah, I went to Bodie, CA a few years back. It’s a cool place!

[ProudModerate2]

Many moons ago, I have visited the famous Calico Ghost Town here is Southern California.
It's a tourist/camping location.
Here is some YouTube video ... https://youtu.be/-Obktsj9cmw

[Mr. Smith]

Yeah, California has tons of 'em.

[Mexican Wolf]

If Centralia, PA, counts (even though it still has a few residents who decided to live out the rest of their lives there), then yes.

I'm pretty sure I've been to a few ghost towns out West, too, but I can't remember their names right now. I think one was in southern Arizona, though.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Yes, I work near them. Given the dynamic nature of gold mining, there are abandoned towns and desolate outposts all through the outback of Western Australia.

[dead0man]

We went to one or two on vacation when I was little, but I don't really remember them.

There was a town southwest of StLouis that used an oily water spray on their roads in the 70s to keep the dust down that they later learned had dioxin in it and the state just bought out all the residents in the early 80s.  It was right on I-44 heading to Six Flags.  It was odd because of it's fairly large size, the general modernness of the buildings/homes and how close it was to the interstate/civilization.  I never actually went (though I think they opened it back up as a park in the last few years), but I drove passed it a hundred plus times.

Times Beach

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I've been to a s**tload of abandoned places, but not a ghost town, sadly.

[Dr. MB]

I’ve been to a town called Shaniko in central Oregon which calls itself “Oregon's Best Known Ghost Town”. But 39 people live there so it’s not actually a ghost town and they do it mostly for tourism related stuff (they’ve got some pretty cool Wild West storefronts). Doesn’t really count I’d say.

[jaymichaud]

I travelled Route 66 and there were a few on the route (e.g Amboy, CA)

[HillGoose]

nah G I don't believe in goats

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

Nope. Although then again, this state is empty enough to be the largest ghost town in the nation.