Bodie, California Nestled in the heart of California, Bodie once thrived as a bustling gold-mining town during the late 1800s ...

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The Silver State is littered with abandoned mining towns and camps that were thriving during the area's silver rush in the late 1800s. Check out Di Stefano's tour of Gold Point, NV, a ghost town ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, fueling Stockton's rapid growth, many are still digging for riches all over California.

Is there anything spookier that wandering around a town once bustling with people and activity that is now abandoned and deserted? Often nicknamed ghost towns ... The gold deposits ran dry ...

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 ...

Colorado was a large mining state. After the California Gold Rush, gold was found in the rivers and streams of Colorado from a technique called Placer mining. Mines were popping up all over the state.

Velma was the last inhabitant of Sundad. Almost nothing remains of the town except for some stone inscriptions and a few ruins. Today Sidetrack Adventures has published an interesting video exploring ...

Once a thriving community, Humberstone in northern Chile is now a ghost town ... known as "white gold." After World War I, the industry began to crumble and the towns were abandoned in the ...

i.e. at the very hight of the gold rush, found gold here. At its peak the town had more than 10.000 inhabitants, but already in 1882 a great exodus began. Today Bodie is on of the biggest and best ...