Outside
You Can Spend the Night Inside These 6 Spooky Ghost Towns
From restored miners’ cabins in Montana to desert outpost campgrounds in Nevada and California, these places offer an eerie overnight experience that no hotel can match.
Lonely Planet
The Best Places to Celebrate Halloween in the US
Halloween is the rare holiday when your costumes and festivities can be both cute and creepy. Here are the top US places to get in on the fun.
Atlas Obscura
Saint Mary in the Mountains Catholic Church in Virginia City, Nevada
St. Mary in the Mountains is the oldest active Catholic church in Nevada. It survived the Great Fire of 1875 and the “Mad Monks” who removed most of the original artwork and architecture. Built in 1868, destroyed in the Great Fire of 1875, and rebuilt in 1876. The church is still operating and has a museum and a gift store. In the 1950s, a group of Cistercian monks from Wisconsin took over the…