Nevada City and Grass Valley, siblings in Gold Country near Sacramento, have been drawing more visitors than ever.

Many of the west’s ghost towns were abandoned after the Gold Rush, as mines closed and the promise of riches disappeared. In some cases, water supplies dried up. Fires ravaged others.

Gold Rush Days & Ghost Towns. Season 19 Episode 7 | 56m 49s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Explore Idaho's mining history beginning around 1860 and ghost town heritage. 03/07/2001 | Rating TV-G ...

Ghost Town; Inside California's Gold Rush ghost town eerily untouched for almost 100 years The mining town of Bodie in the Sierra Nevada Mountains is kept in a state of 'arrested decay' by ...

This fall, get into the spooky spirit with a trip to one of these ghost towns in the U.S. ... this former gold-rush town thrived in the 1900s with a population of about 5,000 for about 12 years.

Gold Rush Days & Ghost Towns (Outdoor Idaho) Special | 56m 49s | Video has closed captioning. In the 1860's thousands of gold seekers poured into Idaho, intent upon striking it rich.

Ogilby witnessed the rise and fall of nearby mining towns, the challenges of desert transportation, and the rigors of military training during WWII. Its proximity to the Tumco Mines, where gold was ...

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 ...

"Gold Rush" returns Friday for Season 11 with a two-hour episode on Discovery, ... “We’re living the American dream, up in a ghost town, and we’re the only residents.