Once a bustling gold mining town, Hedges—later known as Tumco—is now a haunting relic in the California desert. Abandoned ...

The Myrtle Beach area miniature golf course has been abandoned for years, but now it will reopen, offering visitors a chance ...

A new “cold rush” is mining northern mineral riches. Canada’s Giant Mine serves as a warning of the high and long-term cost ...

Some of the contaminated soil has already been hauled away; next to go are the 100-foot-high mountains of lead mining waste that loom over the town. By early next year, Picher will be little more ...

Photographer Francesca Di Stefano has taken amazing photos of the ghost towns and valleys in Nevada. The Silver State is littered with abandoned mining towns and camps that were thriving during ...

Situated at 2,000 m in the Andes, 60 km to the east of Rancagua, in an environment marked by extremes of climate, Sewell Mining Town was built by the Braden ... but was largely abandoned in the 1970s.

After the gilded metal was discovered on the southwest side of the Ortiz Mountains in the late 1820s, Golden was a place of fevered searching as equipment churned and prominent companies poured money ...

abandoned city. America's western states are full of these towns; many were founded during the mining boom in the late 1800s to serve as home bases for miners. Today, these historically ...