The North London Mining Office has been dated back to 1883. Like skiers of the popular 10th Mountain Huts, this past winter ...

Carl Tape's midsummer trek through ghost towns and newspaper clippings brings new insights to an earthquake nearly erased by time.

Prescott’s Courthouse Plaza stands as the heart of this historic mountain town. Whiskey Row, once lined with over 40 saloons, still offers plenty of western hospitality. The Palace Saloon, Arizona’s ...

Calling it an exercise in imagination, seismologist Carl Tape stopped at the site of Dome City and the former townsite of ...

Kolmanskop offers a haunting blend of lost wealth, colonial history, and the unstoppable force of nature. Located just a few kilometers inland from Lüderitz in southwestern Namibia, Kolmanskop was ...

Tucked away in the Cuyamaca Mountains just an hour east of San Diego lies Julian, a pocket-sized paradise where apple pies cool on windowsills and gold rush history lives on in every wooden storefront ...

A woman draped in pearls, her hands clad in dainty gloves walks down a luxuriously carpeted hallway, the sound of clinking ...

Step back in time to Coloma, California, the historic ghost town where gold was first discovered in 1848, sparking the ...

Once the fourth largest town in Nevada, Rhyolite exploded into existence with gold rush fever—only to collapse just as fast. With three railroads, electric lights, a $130,000 train depot, and even an ...

Kolmanskop in Namibia was once a booming desert city, built on diamonds. Today, it stands abandoned - one of the world’s most iconic ghost towns buried in sand ...