If you’re into history, especially the Gold Rush era, California has some incredible towns that bring the past to life. These ...

Now don’t go all weak at the knees and soft in the head when you read this: Gold! In the Mojave Desert! It’s a gold rushlet so far: lots of wishful thinking that half-forgotten old mines still have ...

In all of the Golden State, there is one place that teems with Gold Rush history like no other, and that's where the 49ers rushed to pan for gold: Placer County. Northern California's Sierra Nevada ...

On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in the foothills ...

It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mishmash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes, swaths of ...