Trona is a tiny mining town in the Mojave Desert north of Los Angeles. It is the shadow of a bygone era, and of an industry in decline. It is hot and dry, the air smells of sulphur, and the ...

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 ...

On a drive through the Mojave and Death Valley, T+L discovers abandoned mining ... more from the Desert 101 textbook: flat, dusty, hot, boring. Finally, we reached the small town of Trona.

You’re traveling along an endless stretch of the Mojave Desert ... in an Old West town that looks like an authentic Old West town. Welcome to Randsburg, a desert gold-mining town that struck ...

The mysterious beauty of the Mojave Desert has been captured in a series of stunning, yet haunting images. The pictures have been taken over 16 years by photographer Zach Bradley, who grew up in ...

Shaun, a professional photographer who lives in northern Nevada, visited the ghost town earlier this month and took a haunting set of photos. "The Mojave Desert area is a surreal place," the 30 ...

Just outside of Barstow in the Mojave Desert—designated the state of California’s official “silver rush ghost town” in 2005—Calico started its life as a lawless 19th-century mining camp.

Calico, California, was founded around 1881 as a mining town in the Mojave Desert. In its short time as a populated town, Calico produced over $20 million in silver. Kennecott became one of the ...

The tiny desert town attracts star gazers ... crossroads for two different wagon trails and a mining camp. The railroad built it into a town in 1905 and it became a center for area cattle ranchers ...

is now a county park where people come to imagine life in an old mining town as well as another setting for Mojave Desert ghost legends. Shadowlands, an online repository of rumored hauntings ...

David Clair was shooting a video on gold miners in the Mojave Desert when ... the town of Trona, off California 178 in the Searles Valley, was once a thriving Borax mining community that had ...