Prescott’s Courthouse Plaza stands as the heart of this historic mountain town. Whiskey Row, once lined with over 40 saloons, still offers plenty of western hospitality. The Palace Saloon, Arizona’s ...

Calling it an exercise in imagination, seismologist Carl Tape stopped at the site of Dome City and the former townsite of ...

A woman draped in pearls, her hands clad in dainty gloves walks down a luxuriously carpeted hallway, the sound of clinking ...

Step back in time to Coloma, California, the historic ghost town where gold was first discovered in 1848, sparking the ...

Kolmanskop in Namibia was once a booming desert city, built on diamonds. Today, it stands abandoned - one of the world’s most iconic ghost towns buried in sand ...

Ogilby witnessed the rise and fall of nearby mining towns, the challenges of desert transportation, and the rigors of military training during WWII. Its proximity to the Tumco Mines, where gold was ...

Nevada Lodge No. 4 holds the strange honor of being Colorado’s only ghost town Masonic lodge. Founded by gold miners, it ...

Tucked away in the Cuyamaca Mountains just an hour east of San Diego lies Julian, a gold-rush era town that feels like ...

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called ...

Nevada City and Grass Valley, siblings in Gold Country near Sacramento, have been drawing more visitors than ever.

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.

“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.