Mines

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

This former quarry is now a picturesque gorge that hides a sunken lake.

This monolithic slab of art metal crowns a German slag heap.

The remains of this deep, dark mine have left behind a haunting rocky warren of tunnels.