Calico is a desert ghost town, theme-park style. Just outside of Barstow in the Mojave Desert—designated the state of California’s official “silver rush ghost town” in 2005—Calico ...

The ghost town was in disrepair when Okura’s father ... only in this corner of the Mojave Desert. “It’s unlike any other place you can visit,” he said. “There’s nothing like ...

Calico has loomed large on my wish list for a long time. Could there really be a revived ghost town somewhere in the Mojave Desert, with ties to one of my favorite theme parks? The internet didn ...

Saltdale is not California’s most picturesque ghost town. It’s certainly not ... a dry lakebed with salt deposits on its surface in the Mojave Desert, about 20 miles north of California ...

These Five Former Boomtowns Invite You To Step Into the State’s Mining History On the northern edge of the Mojave ... ghost towns are alike, however. Some were abandoned and left to the desert ...

A CALIFORNIA ghost town has not exceeded 15,000 residents in ... Ghostly photographs of California City - a planned city in the desert - have revealed the failed vision of sociology professor ...

dreamers hoping to strike it rich have been staking their claim to a dusty 80-acre town in the Mojave Desert called Nipton. For nearly all of them, those dreams have been fool’s gold.

Amboy, population 0 — a Mojave Desert ghost town and Americana icon fights to survive Story by Alex Wigglesworth • 4mo ... who owns Roy’s gas station, along with the rest of the ghost town, ...