BEEN TALKING ABOUT GETTING AWAY? As in, away away? As in, one of the away-est areas you can find within the Golden State, but still a place that teems with terrific stories, amazing visuals, and lore ...

Ghost towns emerged during the 19th century as communities that had been built around mining camps, railroad hubs, and boomtowns fueled by gold rushes. These settlements popped seemingly overnight, ...

Every fall for the past eight years, my dad, brother and I have taken road trips up and down the Owens Valley along California’s Highway 395, discovering all of the history the region has to offer.

The first time Dennis Ariza visited the ghost town of Bodie in the Eastern Sierras, he got the impression the residents had been abducted by aliens. “I learned that when the gold mine closed families ...

GHOST TOWNS? They may lack in many of our modern amenities, the fancy-dancy stuff that springs up around so many of our contemporary cities, but what they do boast is the Milky Way. True, the shimmery ...

Ghost towns from deserts to Arctic ice show how quickly busy streets fall silent, leaving history to whisper through empty walls!! The post 14 Eerie Ghost Towns You Can Visit and a Few You Cant ...

Boone Store and Warehouse was built in 1874 for Harvey Boone, a descendent of Daniel Boone. During a long-ago summer of wandering the Western U.S. in a woefully underpowered 1971 VW bus, we were ...

An historic California gold-mining town located at an elevation of 8,375 feet south of Bridgeport is—like most of the Eastern Sierra—blanketed in deep snow. Bodie State Historic Park, founded in 1876 ...

Every morning, it seemed, another man would turn up dead on the dusty streets of Bodie. The “bad men from Bodie,” as newspapers in the 1800s called them, were notorious for their profanity, deception, ...

BEEN TALKING ABOUT GETTING AWAY? As in, away away? As in, one of the away-est areas you can find within the Golden State, but still a place that teems with terrific stories, amazing visuals, and lore ...

During a long-ago summer of wandering the Western U.S. in a woefully underpowered 1971 VW bus, we were camped in Yosemite Valley when learning of an exceptional ghost town on the eastern flank of ...