In the middle of California's desert lies a town that once buzzed with thousands of residents, schools, shops and even its own hospital. Today, the schools and hospital buildings are still there but it is nothing but a ghost town.
Eagle Mountain was founded in 1948 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser to house workers at what became the largest iron mine in the western United States. At its peak, nearly 4,000 people lived in the company-built town. But after the mine shut down in 1983, the community emptied almost overnight, leaving behind one of America's best-preserved ghost towns.
