Gold Rush

The oldest orange tree in California spawned a generation of citrus farmers.

It's estimated that half of the world's gold was mined from South Africa's "golden arc."

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

An engineering masterpiece, or “Scheme of Madness?”

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.