Some start with a bang—gold rush fever, a mining boom ... and the feeling that time just stopped. These ghost towns are essentially snapshots of a different America. Smoke rising from cracked ...

A boomtown of incredible wealth during the Gold Rush-era, Virginia City is located ... with Mount Shasta or Lake Shasta) is a tiny ghost town with plenty to explore. First, head to Shasta State ...

These ghost towns, relics of the Gold Rush era, continue to haunt the picturesque landscapes, echoing tales of dreams turned into nightmares. In this exploration, we unearth the stories of five ...

Arizona’s best ghost towns aren’t just empty buildings collecting dust. They’re gold mines frozen in time, saloons where you ...

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 ...

(Courtesy of Scott Peterson)| St. Elmo, located less than 83 miles southeast of Aspen, Colorado, is one of the state's best-preserved ghost towns. Formed in 1880 for miners in search of gold and ...

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 ...

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 ...