The first time Dennis Ariza visited the ghost town of Bodie in the Eastern Sierras, he got the impression the residents had been abducted by aliens. “I learned that when the gold mine closed families ...

During a long-ago summer of wandering the Western U.S. in a woefully underpowered 1971 VW bus, we were camped in Yosemite Valley when learning of an exceptional ghost town on the eastern flank of ...

Ghost towns emerged during the 19th century as communities that had been built around mining camps, railroad hubs, and boomtowns fueled by gold rushes. These settlements popped seemingly overnight, ...

Dennis Ariza has been visiting the California ghost town of Bodie annually for a decade. "I find something intriguing about the place every time I go," the photographer told Insider. He describes a ...

Every fall for the past eight years, my dad, brother and I have taken road trips up and down the Owens Valley along California’s Highway 395, discovering all of the history the region has to offer.

AFTER THE SNOW: You may follow a dozen favorite places in your various feeds, or a hundred, or close to a thousand, but regardless of how full your scroll-by gets, you likely remembered seeing ...

"Dear Bodie... I'm sorry that I took this piece of metal from the town. I thought it was all a joke but it wasn't at all. Things are happening that are very hard to explain." From a letter to Bodie, ...

High in the remote hills of eastern California, a town sits perfectly still, caught in a moment that never moved forward. Bodie was once a roaring gold rush city filled with miners, merchants, and ...

GHOST TOWNS? They may lack in many of our modern amenities, the fancy-dancy stuff that springs up around so many of our contemporary cities, but what they do boast is the Milky Way. True, the shimmery ...

Every morning, it seemed, another man would turn up dead on the dusty streets of Bodie. The “bad men from Bodie,” as newspapers in the 1800s called them, were notorious for their profanity, deception, ...