In the U.S., one of the best-preserved ghost towns you can visit is Bodie, California. A gold rush mining town, Bodie had up to 10,000 residents at its peak and was actually one of California’s ...

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

Museums, ghost towns, old mining sites... From the mountains of California to the deserts of Nevada, the American West is full of historic sites dating from the feverish era of the Gold Rush.

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Here are expanded descriptions for all 20 ghost towns in Colorado: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many headed straight for the gold rush's most ubiquitous forms of entertainment: drinking and gambling. In the mining towns, a plank table and some canvas for shade became a rowdy gambling saloon.

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 ...