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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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