Mines

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

During World War II, Austria's oldest salt mine was used to store thousands of pieces of stolen artwork.

Rusted and decayed, this former mining site is a portal to the past.

For decades, the largest tungsten producer in the U.S. was located in a spectacular setting in the high Sierra Nevada, with some of the workings over 11,000 feet.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

Only the headframes remain from this mining operation, once one of the largest in the region.

The largest open-pit gold mine in Canada.

Little remains of the once flourishing Asbestos' asbestos mine.

The half-finished remains of what would have been Scotland’s biggest piece of landscape art.

Gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc were once extracted at this abandoned mine near Lookout Mountain.

An abandoned mining complex in Serra do Gerês.

Peek into a cave of giant, glimmering crystals.

This decaying complex from the early 1900s was once the site of massive iron and fluorite mines.

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

A museum entirely dedicated to the evolution of mining lamps.