Located in the foothills of Arizona's Castle Dome Mountains, about 30 miles from Yuma, Castle Dome City was a mining town that sprung up in 1864 and mining would continue in the area until the 1970s. In the 1800s, the town grew to include a school, two mercantiles, a sheriff’s office, a jail, a church, and probably most importantly for a lot of the miners, five bars.

These days, getting to the town involves driving on Highway 95 and then taking a dirt road through the Army's Yuma Proving Grounds, but in the 1800s you could arrive via regular stage service from Yuma. Life in the town was hard though, and often the nearest water source was the Colorado River, 20 miles away.

Today, the ghost town is operated as a museum. A number of the buildings are original, with others having been moved from the Kofa Wildlife Refuge and others having been recreated using salvaged materials. Almost every building in the town is filled with items found in the town or local mines, and you can easily spend hours here looking around.

The Castle Dome City and Mine Museum is located at 33.046064, 114.178253

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