Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The abandoned 1912 high school building in Toya, Texas, now sits empty in the West Texas ghost town. Toya, once a booming railroad ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The main house at The Villa de la Mina, a ghost town in Terlingua, which is near Big Bend in West Texas. (Courtesy of The Villa de ...

These towns are losing their lifeblood as Texas booms. More than 50 million people could live in the state by 2050. While most of the state grows — in particular the larger urban and suburban centers ...

There’s something magnetic about abandoned places. Maybe it’s the silence where there used to be noise, or the way wooden buildings lean like they’re telling secrets to the wind. Ghost towns across ...

Texas is famous for leading the nation in cattle, cotton and oil, but the Lone Star State can claim another distinction more appropriate for Halloween this week: Texas not only hosts more bat species ...

If you've ever taken a drive down Interstate 35, you may have noticed the sensation of the hair on the back of your neck standing on end as you get closer to San Antonio. That eerie feeling is one ...