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Terlingua, Texas
Terlingua, Texas: former quicksilver-mining ghost town in Brewster County's Big Bend, once producing 40% of U.S. mercury, now a Big Bend National Park gateway and chili cook-off site.
Thurmond, West Virginia
Thurmond is a nearly depopulated former railroad town in Fayette County, West Virginia, a historic district within New River Gorge National Park with about five residents.
Times Beach, Missouri
Times Beach, Missouri: former St. Louis-area town, also called Route 66 State Park site, evacuated after dioxin (TCDD) contamination from waste oil sprayed on roads; bought out 1983, incinerated, delisted 2001.
Tombstone, Arizona
Tombstone, Arizona: silver-mining boomtown founded 1879 in Cochise County, site of the 1881 O.K. Corral gunfight; produced about $39 million in ore before mines flooded by 1890.
Villa Epecuén
Villa Epecuén (Pueblo 'Mar de Epecuén'), Argentine spa village on hypersaline Lago Epecuén, Buenos Aires Province; founded 1921, flooded 10 November 1985, submerged ~20 years under up to 10 m of water, now salt-coated ruins and tourist site.
Wharram Percy
Wharram Percy is a deserted medieval village in the Yorkshire Wolds, North Yorkshire, occupied about 600 years before abandonment soon after 1500, excavated over 40 seasons from 1950 to 1990 and Europe's best-known deserted medieval village.