10 Ghost Towns Reclaimed by Nature: Eerie Reminders of Vanished Lives

9. Bodie, California, USA: Gold Rush's Weather-Beaten Whisper

Unlike many ghost towns, Bodie is preserved in a state of "arrested decay" as a California State Historic Park. Once a roaring gold rush town of 10,000, it boasted 65 saloons and a bustling main street. Its last residents left in the 1940s. Today, buildings stand as they were, stocked with goods, but exposed to the harsh elements of the high desert. While human intervention prevents full reclamation, the relentless sun, wind, and snow gnaw at its wooden structures, slowly breaking them down, hinting at nature's slow but inevitable victory.