Take a haunting look at Alone, Kentucky — an eerie ghost town frozen in time with abandoned buildings and forgotten stories.

Kentucky has a number of so-called ghost cities that were once independently governed but no longer operate as such. Now officials are using a relatively new state law to dissolve them.

Situated southeast of Muhammad Ali International Airport, Poplar Hills is one of 83 home-rule cities in Jefferson County. It has a population of 380. And the only thing inside its boundaries is a ...

While similar museums exist in other former company towns, such as Lynch’s Portal 31, most abandoned mines have not been repurposed for new economic purposes.