I visited Mark Cuban's Texas ghost town, and 'Mustang' was more barren and mysterious than I ever imagined

• The billionaire Mark Cuban bought the ghost town of Mustang, Texas, in 2021 for about $2 million.
• Cuban has never been there and said he has "zero plans for it" in an email.
• I drove to visit Mustang, population zero. I found no buildings but an intriguing history.

I recently learned that Mark Cuban, the billionaire and former owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, bought an entire "ghost town'" called Mustang for about $2 million in 2021.

Mustang is about an hour away from the part of Dallas I live in. But until now, I had never come across it — and almost nobody in my circles had, either.

The Census reports that Mustang's population is zero, so maybe that makes sense.