Tucked away in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills lies a place where time stands still and the 1850s come alive. Columbia ...

Gold prices doubled in the last two years and are now at record highs. And prospectors are once again rushing to California's waterways to see what they yield.

From Clint Eastwood's favorite train to historic buildings to taverns, Jamestown, California, is an excellent travel ...

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 ...