I never mentioned the ghost towns I have visited. I've mostly been to the dead mining towns of California and Nevada --- booms towns gone bust when the mines played out. I've been to a lot of abandoned towns in and around Death Valley and into the old mines as well. I've also been to the ruins of the Anasazi in the southwest and to the amazing Mayan and Aztec ruins of Mexico, which are far more impressive than the old clapboard buildings of the abandoned boom towns here in the west, but somehow you don't FEEL the ghosts in those places the way you do in these western ghost towns --- maybe they are too far removed in time and culture. I want to visit the ruins of Europe and Asia, I want to see the ancient monuments of Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt, the remnants of Greek and Roman temples, and I want to see the places that were incinerated in an instant like Pompei, but I also think that they will not connect with me in the same way the ghost towns of the west do.