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Twentynine Palms, California

Brooklyn Mine

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.
Looking east across the bridge.
Oroville, California

Bidwell Bar Bridge

California's first suspension bridge.
Burning towers built in 1857.
Beechworth, Australia

Chinese Burning Towers

Constructed in 1857, mourners used these towers to burn offerings of paper prayers and gifts for the afterlife.
The Welcome Stranger Monument
Moliagul, Australia

The Welcome Stranger Monument

This stone obelisk commemorates the discovery of the world's largest gold nugget.
Dawson City Museum
Dawson City, Yukon

Dawson City Museum

A lasting testament to the Klondike Gold Rush.
The South 32 Hermosa mine site is only half a mile away from the Soto family homestead, and likely holds the largest undeveloped zinc deposit in the world.
ghost towns

Once a Boom Town, Now a Ghost Town, Always a Hometown

The Soto family has lived through Arizona's mining booms and the broken promises that come with them.
Clara Migoya October 21, 2020
Today, Barkerville hosts cultural and educational events celebrating the history of British Columbia's Chinese community.
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In Canada, Gold Rush-Era Garbage Reveals a History of Chinese Immigrant Cuisine

Archaeologists unearthed evidence of pig roasts and boozy gatherings at an 1870s British Columbia eatery.
Reina Gattuso June 23, 2020
Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge
Sumpter, Oregon

Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.
Armstrong Nugget
Baker City, Oregon

The Armstrong Nugget

This 80.33 troy ounces of solid gold is believed to be the largest nugget from Oregon still in its original form.
San Francisco, California

1852 South Beach Shoreline

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.
Permanently Closed
Christmas Casino & Inn
Cripple Creek, Colorado

Christmas Casino & Inn

Inside this casino, visitors are treated to slot machines and a rare German Christmas pyramid.
Breckenridge, Colorado

Barney Ford Museum

The home of a formerly enslaved man who went on to become a prospector, entrepreneur, and activist for Black rights.
Central City, Colorado

Ghost Town Disc Golf

Toss a Frisbee through the ruins of this Colorado gold mining town.
Lordsburg, New Mexico

Shakespeare Ghost Town

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.
Etchison rappels into yet another mine.
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North Carolina’s Abandoned Gold Mines Don’t Have Gold, But Do Have Bats

A deadly disease could devastate these thriving colonies of winged critters.
Sabrina Imbler August 14, 2019
Hermits welcome.
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For Sale: An Off-the-Grid Castle Sitting on an Actual Gold Mine

Way, way out in the Nevada desert, there's a perfect house for the posh recluse in your life.
Jessica Leigh Hester May 10, 2019
Molson, Washington

Okanogan Highland Ghost Towns

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.
The Star Hotel around 1910.
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How Basque Food Got to Northern Nevada

It all started with the Gold Rush.