We’re everywhere,” said Maxine Valkov, a trans woman from El Dorado County. “Why wouldn’t we be in Placerville?” ...

Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast cultures with those in the Andes and Amazon, flourishing around the same ...

Nestled in California's Sierra Nevada mountains is a former mining town with an unusual name and past that will pique any ...

Although it was once a booming mining spot, this ghost town in Arizona is now a museum where visitors can learn more about ...

Four decades after Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado shot a human anthill of mud-spattered miners digging for gold in ...