Did you know we have an underwater Ghost Town here in Idaho?! We do, and here's how it happened!

I just discovered Idaho is home to dozens of ghost towns, but there is an underwater Atlantis in eastern Idaho that most people don't know about.

American Falls, located on the West Bank of the Snake River was once a thriving community.

In 1925 the Bureau of Reclamation started moving the entire city of American Falls to make way for the American Falls Dam. Nearly 350 residents and their homes were moved, along with 60 businesses, churches, schools, and the entire railroad was moved 22 feet to prepare for the increased water levels.

The American Falls Dam was supposed to help the city who was in a drought but instead it put the city right in the middle of a reservoir and flooded the entire city.

Over the next few months a new city was built on higher ground.

The only thing that remains of the original American Falls is the Oneida grain elevator.

You can get a glimpse of the city every once in a while though as the water recedes and remnants become visible. You can see foundations of homes and stone landscaping peaking up through the water. Check out video of it below. I gotta check this place out! It's so creepy and cool! Let's go road-trippin'!