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Bodie: America's most famous ghost town

If you peek inside one of the broken-down buildings in Bodie, California, you might see dust-covered furniture, an old muffin pan, rusty tins, and broken kerosene lamps or a fully stocked general store with original wooden boxes and shelves with tin cans. Situated in a sagebrush-covered valley in the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the old gold-mining town, once busy with life, began in the 1870s, when prospective miners arrived in the town in hopes of finding gold and becoming wealthy.

In the 1870s, thirty mines were built and began producing large pieces of gold in large quantities. The Standard Company was one of the first factories in America to extract the remaining traces of gold using electricity. Chemical processing was done in two stages.

When the California State Parks Department took over Bodie in 1962, it began a program of "arrested decay," maintaining the run-down structures just as they appeared at the time the department acquired the town.

According to Charley Spiller, a Bodie maintenance mechanic, the greatest enemies of preservation are wind, which can gust up to 100 miles an hour on nearby mountains, and snow, which averages 13 feet a year.