Bodie: California's Best-Preserved Ghost Town

Bodie sits at 8,300 feet in California's Bodie Hills, a gold-rush boomtown that peaked around 1880 with thousands of residents. Today over 110 buildings remain standing, not because history forgot them, but because California's "arrested decay" policy keeps quietly stabilising roofs, bracing walls, and fighting off time itself every day. Love content? Check out Simon's other YouTube Channels: Megaprojects:https://www.youtube.com/@megaprojects9649 Warfronts: https://www.youtube.com/@warographics643 Sideprojects: https://www.youtube.com/@Sideprojects Into The Shadows: https://www.youtube.com/@IntotheShadows Today I Found Out: https://www.youtube.com/@TodayIFoundOut Brain Blaze: https://www.youtube.com/@brainblaze6526 Casual Criminalist: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCasualCriminalist Decoding the Unknown: https://www.youtube.com/@decodingtheunknown2373 Celestium: https://www.youtube.com/@astrographics-ve4yq HomeFronts: https://www.youtube.com/@homefronts