Welcome to Bodie, California’s best-preserved ghost town. It looks pretty much the same as it did when the last residents ...

Picture a dusty town frozen in time, where wooden buildings creak in the desert wind and stories of silver miners echo ...

But real ghosts or not, Walter Knott did built a ghost town, and he cobbled it together out of old buildings sourced from ...

In his new book, Abandoned Southern California: The Slowing of Time, photographer Ken Lee has captured the ruins of lost civilizations as they melt away in the desert. He captures old jalopies, shacks ...

California's rich history includes a fascinating chapter of the Old West and mining towns that played a significant role in shaping the state's identity. From the Gold Rush era to the Wild West days, ...