While visiting this eerie, not-quite-deserted Colorado ghost town that once bigger than Denver, you'll want to keep your eyes peeled for an actual ghost.

This land is your land — until a foreign mining company wants it,” writes the owner and caretaker of a historic 19th-century mining town in Inyo.

Old Tallangatta's path to ghost-hood was anything but a ... She said once the Grant gold rush concluded, so did the town's chance of survival. "If you go there now, there is nothing there.

Moore, and his partner, William Kroenig, opened the Mystic Copper Mine, and by the following year the gold rush ... town was then faced with several challenges before it eventually became a ghost ...

Ghost Towns and More reports military troops in the Rush Valley discovered Native Americans ... Mining began for silver, gold, zinc and lead and the town flourished with saloons, dance halls ...

There’s a strange pull to New Mexico’s ghost towns. Maybe it’s the quiet ... New Mexico’s first gold rush flared here in 1825. At its height, Golden had saloons, stores, and a buzzing ...

Wyoming’s gold rush started 150 years ago after soldiers at Fort Bridger discovered gold at the foot of the Wind River Mountains. They filed a claim, the Cariso Lode, in 19th-century Wyoming ...

San Francisco became a ghost town by the spring of 1848 ... Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction. During the peak years of the gold rush ...

In the U.S., one of the best-preserved ghost towns you can visit is Bodie, California. A gold rush mining town, Bodie had up to 10,000 residents at its peak and was actually one of California’s ...

“It’s a modern day gold rush,” Tucker said ... Today, a sign leading into the community describes it as a “living ghost town.” A cluster of Old West-style wooden buildings line ...