The three earthquakes that rattled western Nevada on Wednesday morning caused some damage to California’s fragile Bodie State Historic Park, which will remain closed until Sunday while rangers repair ...

Welcome to Bodie, California. The once bustling mining town, known for it's shootouts, bar room brawls and stagecoach holdups is now just a shadow of itself. It sits deep in the desert, almost as if ...

An archetypal Old West boomtown full of gunslinging outlaws and petticoat-clad women can still be reached by car about an hour’s drive from the eastern gate of Yosemite National Park near the ...

Dennis Ariza has been a photographer since 1969, going from black-and-white photography to color, and then making the jump to digital. While he's primarily a wildlife photographer, there's one static ...

In 1859, gold was discovered in California by a group of prospectors, including a tin manufacturer named W.S. Bodey. And the Gold Rush began. The following November, Bodey died in a blizzard while ...

You’ll find the town of Bodie on a windswept, God forsaken, middle-of-nowhere, high-desert plateau in Eastern California. At the height of its gold mining heyday, some 8,500 people lived in this 19th ...

I’m a geek for ruins. So when the last stretch of California State Route 270 turned into an unpaved road, and the gravel under our wheels was making us bob up and down in our seats, I was genuinely ...

If you thought America is only about its hiking trails and national parks, then this is for you. America is home to some (in) ...

Once a booming gold rush town, Bodie now stands eerily still in “arrested decay.” We explore California’s best ghost town, where dusty streets and weathered buildings tell the haunting story of a life ...