Welcome to Bodie State Historic Park, California’s best-preserved ghost town. “Rust never sleeps, but this old jalopy sure does!” A weathered vintage car rests peacefully among wooden buildings, ...

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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 ...

The Santa Cruz Mountains in California have a haunted history. The mountains that rise between Silicon Valley and the Pacific coast once held a variety of small towns that are only memories now.

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Searching for gold in America with a metal detector is a favorite pastime for thousands who dream of striking it rich.

Once a thriving community, Humberstone in northern Chile is now a ghost town. Beginning in the late ... a professor of history at California State University, Los Angeles, told Business Insider.

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“Ghost Town” is defined as a place where the population has declined significantly and the initial reason for the settlement (such as a mine) no longer keeps people in the community.

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.