Ghosts of North America

Ghosts of North America Ghost towns, abandoned places, and the North American roadside. Ghosts of North America will be your window on that.

In 2003, we started a project to document North Dakota’s ghost towns and abandoned places through photography — a project that became the website, GhostsofNorthDakota.com, and later, a series of hardcover coffee table books. Along the way, we branched out a little bit, into Minnesota with GhostsofMN.com, but we also made plans to someday visit the intriguing, abandoned, faraway places of North Ame

rica — a wish list of the abandoned. For now, we’ll be posting a few things of interest here and there, but soon we hope to begin visiting these places in person. We’re from North Dakota, and the geographical center of the continent is here in our state, so what better way to start exploring North America’s abandoned places than from the center out?

You could fool most people into thinking this place is a Route 66 attraction. A hotel borne of car culture; a lonely sto...
05/09/2023

You could fool most people into thinking this place is a Route 66 attraction. A hotel borne of car culture; a lonely stop among the cacti on the most famous two-lane highway through the American southwest.

This must be a Route 66 hotel, right?

An abandoned 6-arch Saskatchewan bridge.
03/08/2023

An abandoned 6-arch Saskatchewan bridge.

I’m hiding in places you’d never think to look.

What do you think is happening in this century-old photograph developed from an old glass plate negative?
12/28/2022

What do you think is happening in this century-old photograph developed from an old glass plate negative?

Another glass plate negative, another small mystery

10/28/2022

We took more than a hundred photos of San Haven Sanatorium ten years ago today, on September 30th, 2012. The original photos are now in the public domain and can be downloaded in full-resolution, without watermarks or processing, at the links.

Originals here: https://bit.ly/3Rcs41o
Read more about this public domain release here: https://bit.ly/3CO3Xlg

10/22/2022
09/06/2022

Coming to the end of an extremely productive summer, a look at the Sculpture reveals Crazy Horse’s Hand emerging more and more from the granite. Even from the Visitor Center nearly one mile away, the appearance of part of Crazy Horse’s Thumb is recognizable.

Whether you are enjoying a day off or hard at it this – we encourage you to take a step back, look at the bigger picture, and appreciate progress. Happy Labor Day!

Caretaker of Land of Oz theme park prepares for another round of Halloween trespassers
10/28/2019

Caretaker of Land of Oz theme park prepares for another round of Halloween trespassers

“This property is not abandoned. We are now hosting 11 security cameras on site. We are completely fenced in and have a great security system," the caretaker says.

09/01/2019

The news brings residents of Robles Park Village to tears. The place where they live was built on the site of long-forgotten Zion Cemetery.

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