You’ll discover haunting remnants of American history in Bodie, California, where over 110 gold rush buildings remain preserved in “arrested decay” since 1876. In Pennsylvania, Centralia’s streets have cracked open from an underground mine fire burning continuously since 1962, inspiring the Silent Hill horror franchise. Alabama’s first capital, Cahaba, now exists only as crumbling foundations reclaimed by floodwaters and abandonment. These ghostly settlements reveal forgotten chapters of ambition, disaster, and inevitable decline.
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5.1 Why Is Centralia’s “Graffiti Highway” Now Buried?…