This is no preserved Gold Rush ghost town. You can still visit saloons, restaurants, and shops selling the kinds of things that might have been available in the 1850s. Don't worry, you won't be ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, fueling Stockton's rapid growth, many are still digging for riches all over California.

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 ...

Inside California's Gold Rush ghost town eerily untouched for almost 100 years ...

Velma was the last inhabitant of Sundad. Almost nothing remains of the town except for some stone inscriptions and a few ...

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.

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 ...