Mining

You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.

A local museum remembers one of the worst acts of anti-Chinese violence in American history.

Once owned by the largest employer in Colorado, these ovens have been abandoned for over a century.

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.

Decorated with a staggering 1,380 ladybugs, the installation has turned what was once a grim, forgotten nickel mine into a landmark and a statement.

Over 140 boathouses built by miners from the Soudan Iron Mine in the early 20th century overlook Stuntz Bay on Lake Vermilion.

A unique collection of old miners' cave homes carved in to the hillside cliffs near Death Valley.

This former ghost town high in the mountains of northern Mexico is now a pilgrimage site.

This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.

A monument to an Irish secret society thought to be responsible for a string of violent attacks in Pennsylvania coal mines.

This once-thriving coastal area is now a preserved ghost town.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.

After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.