This week we take our kayaks to an old Coal Mining towns riverbed and search for lost history! We bring ‪@WILDKYLE‬ along for the adventure and find some awesome history! Along the way I ...

Rustic Ridge #1 mine is owned by LCT Energy of Johnstown, Pa., which is working it to extract metallurgical coal, used in ...

CENTRALIA, Pa. - Standing before the wreckage ... in the moonscape of Centralia, a once-proud coal town whose population fled an underground mine fire that began in 1962 and continues to burn.

1."Tonopah, NV. It's on the north end of the Tonopha missile range and Area 51. It's the beginning of nowhere and is home to ...

The sad tale of a firetruck plant shutting down in Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania ... and Coal Mining Museum to remember its fleeting brush with industry. Company: Pickands Mather & Co. Along the Mesabi ...

Nestled in the embrace of Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains lies a Victorian wonderland where cobblestone streets wind between colorful 19th-century facades and forested peaks rise dramatically on all ...

Nestled in the embrace of the Pocono Mountains, where Victorian mansions perch on hillsides and the Lehigh River carves through a dramatic gorge, lies a town so picturesque it earned the nickname “The ...

Many families in Pennsylvania have a similar story: a father, grandfather or great-grandfather who worked in the coal mines.

Victoria and Western Australia's ghost towns often rose and fell with those states' gold mining fortunes. In New South Wales and Queensland, railways were the common denominator. But when the ...

In the 1800s, gold, silver and copper booms lured miners and immigrants looking for a better life. Though the mines ...

While horses and oxen could make the trek, dense snows during winter made higher peaks simply impassable. Its remoteness deterred settlers and kept towns in lower valleys. But then someone struck ...