Pyramiden is a ghost town on an island in the Arctic Glacial Sea. It was a mining settlement originally belonging to Sweden until 1927, when it was sold to the Soviet Union. In 1998, it ceased ...

Bodie, California Nestled in the heart of California, Bodie once thrived as a bustling gold-mining town during the late 1800s ...

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President Donald Trump’s Interior Department has the power to make this vision a reality. By finalizing the proposed Amargosa ...

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Rachel is a dusty, hardscrabble spot, located in the Joshua tree desert just outside Area 51, that highly guarded Air Force ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada ... a ghost town by the spring of 1848. Most men had left their shops to work the mines and ...

From the feed to weaning calves, visitors from the 2025 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering got a quick glance at life as a ...

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Prospera touts itself as the world’s most ambitious experiment in self-governance. Critics say its founders have lost their ...