After the gilded metal was discovered on the southwest side of the Ortiz Mountains in the late 1820s, Golden was a place of fevered searching as equipment churned and prominent companies poured money ...

La Paz, Mexico, is paradise for surfers and divers ... Now home to 300 people, this storied mountainside ghost town houses a mining history museum, as well as relics of the town’s glory days ...

Take a step back in time while visiting these historic – and slightly spooky – ghost towns. While the term "ghost town" may sound like a village haunted by spirits, it actually refers to an ...

Golden’s gold reserves were depleted, and it steadily shrank, until around 1930 when it became a ghost town — a spot in western Santa Fe County between Madrid and Sandia Park on N.M. 14 ...