Nestled deep in the woods of rural Mississippi, at the end of long degraded stretch of road, lives the “ghost town” of Rodney. History buffs and paranormal investigators find themselves called to 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 ...

VENICE, Ill. A section of an abandoned, partly demolished railroad bridge linking this community with St. Louis across the Mississippi River caught fire Friday morning, forcing the closure of a ...