Hidden beneath Georgia’s landscape, an old gold mine tunnel offers a glimpse into a forgotten chapter of mining history. The tunnel still shows signs of excavation, decay, and the risks miners once ...

Abandoned, rusted cars and machinery can be found across the ghost town, heightening the eerie atmosphere of a once vibrant ...

Black Miners Bar at Folsom Lake marks the site of a once-booming Gold Rush settlement built by Black miners seeking freedom and opportunity.

How the two primary people of the gold discovery in California failed to cash in.

The 5th Annual California Days will roll into Calico Ghost Town in Yermo on Valentine’s Day weekend. The event, on Feb. 14 ...

Joshua Tree Trail begins at an opening in the fence behind the parking lot’s large sign for Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness.

The 2026 Winter Olympics are bringing thousands of athletes from around the world together for more than two weeks of competition — and the Games are a gold mine for statistics.

At the dawn of the 20th century, dusk was approaching for the narrow gauge (3 feet or smaller between the rails) fad that ...

Scotty’s Castle, a 1920s vacation home for a millionaire couple and the domain of a famous con man, was a top attraction in ...

High in the eastern Sierra Nevada, a settlement remains where ambition once burned as fiercely as the furnaces that lined its ...

President Donald Trump could soon share a name with a Georgia landmark after a state lawmaker proposed renaming a mountain after him. David Clark, a state representative from Buford, Georgia, called ...