Gold

This small stone hut was once home to a gold prospector and his family.

His discovery kicked off the Gold Rush. One of the hands on this commemorative statue points to the spot where he found the precious metal.

To commemorate a century of gold mining, this Australian city built a monument that features a replica of a 150-pound gold nugget found there in 1858.

The site of a tragic mining disaster in 1882.

The largest open-pit gold mine in Canada.

A rare chance to enter an original gold mine from the 1800s.

The remnants of an abandoned, 19th-century gold mill along Aruba's rugged northeastern coast.

These two large, rusting pieces of machinery are relics of Australia’s gold mining past.

A hulking remnant of Alaska's industrial gold mining boom in the 1920s.

One of the most successful gold mines of the Victorian gold rush.

Above Breckenridge, a destructive mining technique sits sunken in a small pond.

The name of the only golden Buddhist temple in Korea translates as "the temple that protects the country."

This gold mine–turned–swimming hole is the perfect summer picnic spot, immersed in nature and history.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

This stone obelisk commemorates the discovery of the world's largest gold nugget.