Small 'casitas' amongst the ruins. Some are resident artists, and a few are rentals for vacationers.

Terlingua Ghost Town
Before it was a Ghost Town, this was the site of the Chisos Mine.
The discovery of cinnabar, from which the metal mercury is extracted, in the mid-1880s brought miners to the area, creating a city of 2,000 people.
Workers slaved in the hot sun and deep in the mineshafts to extract cinnabar, the raw ore that produces mercury.
By the 1940’s the mines had dried up, leaving a ghost town behind.

"Later, people came back to Terlingua. Not the original residents, but a new unique wave. They are a collection of loners, artists, eccentrics, and outcasts
and other maligned individualists who have fashioned their own crude American Dream in the anonymity of this remote corner of the Chihuahuan Desert.
They comprise a neglected niche in America, outside of the infrastructure.

Here in their ghost town, less is more. Anyone who lives in a one room cabin without water and electricity fits right in.
People live in cars, caves, tepees, tents and shacks made out of car tires. The only unwelcome guest is progress, though its trespasses have become noticeable even here."