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Hidden treasure

Bodie: a Ghost Town in the Back of Beyond

…Beyond anything that might be deemed alive and kicking, in both time and space, Bodie is considered to be the best ghost town in the west. Sitting in the eastern Sierras at an elevation of more than eight thousand feet, the long abandoned boom town almost became California’s official state […]

Joshua Tree National Park: Twentynine Palms, a Town with a Hidden Treasure

As you speed off with Salton Sea slowly receding in your rear view mirror, make the hairpin bend by Palm Desert, and swoop around Eagle Mountain and Joshua Tree National Park, you head for Twentynine Palms, a welcoming desert town on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park with an […]

The Curse of the Spanish Gold Treasure of the Henry Mountains.

We all love legends about lost treasures and secret stashes of gold waiting to be found- but, as tempting as it can be, some treasures are better to be left untouched. That may be the case for the legendary treasure of the gold mine Josephine de Martinique in the Henry […]

The Treasure of the San Juan Mountains

Who didn’t dream at least once of finding a secret treasure that could change your life forever? If there is a place where that could happen, then it is the San Juan Mountains in Colorado. These huge, high series of mountains (that belong to the group of the Rocky Mountains […]