Nevada has the most ghost towns in the United States and here are some photographs of three of them.

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: what would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad; when they a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door." -Alexander Solzhenitsyn.