Colorado Has World’s Top Ghost Town

National Geographic’s “Secret Journeys of a Lifetime” book has named St. Elmo, Colorado, the world’s top ghost town. St. Elmo was once a mining town and trading post but it was abandoned when the railroad shut down in 1922. The site is popular with tourists because many of its original structures remain and several are filled with the possessions of their former occupants, National Geographic said. No. 2 on the list of the Top 10 Ghost Towns was Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, which boasts dwellings and kivas, circular ceremonial structures, left behind from the Chaco civilization between A.D. 800 and 1100. Bodie, California, which contains 150 buildings from the location’s tenure as a mining town in the 1880s, comes in at No. 3. Other towns on the list are located in Chile, India, Turkey and Italy.