Inside Arizona's Most Notorious Ghost Town Once Celebrated As The Wildest City In The West

A mountainside copper camp in Arizona once carried the nickname wickedest town in the West. Its streets cling so steeply to the hill that its old stone jail actually slid downhill. Back then, more than 10,000 people crowded its zigzag streets during the 1920s copper boom. After the mines closed in 1953, the population dropped below 100, and the whole place nearly vanished from the map. I love that stubborn locals refused to let it fade away. Today it’s a National Historic Landmark, and one