Hundreds if not thousands of ghost towns lay in dishevelment throughout the U.S., and Death Valley National Park is home to a number of forgotten ghost towns that were once mining towns.  Just outside this California park across the border into Nevada are the remains of Rhyolite, now a ghost town but once a prosperous mining town that housed 8,000 people at its peak.  I’ve passed by several ghost towns before, but not one of this scale.  Plenty of dilapidated buildings lined the “downtown” of Rhyolite, begging to be photographed.  I later learned that Rhyolite is one of the most photographed ghost…