By the end of the 19th century, everyone was looking for gold, silver, and copper. With these booming industries, many towns ...

There were many small towns and villages associated with the gold strikes and mining operations in the Cariboo ...

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 ...

Explore Bodie, California, once a bustling gold mining center, now one of the most well-preserved ghost towns in the U.S., standing as a testament to the gold rush era.

Washington, which is tucked away in the Sierra Nevada Hills, became a Gold Rush hotspot when it was first founded two centuries ago. Today it is one the oldest mining towns in the state and ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Brit Eaton and Scott Glaves explore the last frontier of American archaeology - the old ghost towns ... old mine shaft that holds a horde of Gold Rush mining gear, there's an endless supply ...