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Gene Cockrell's Yard Art

Iconic figures in concrete and steel in the High Plains of Texas.

Goldfield Hotel main entrance on Columbia Street in 1976

Goldfield, Nevada

Goldfield Hotel

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

The Paste Eater's grave in Goldfield Pioneer Cemetery.

Goldfield, Nevada

Paste Eater's Grave

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Florence and Little Florence Mines

Florence Hill, Nevada

Florence Mine

Exhibiting the tallest structure of its type in Nevada, this massive mining complex is frozen in time.

Sign at the entrance to the monument

Las Cruces, New Mexico

Prehistoric Trackways National Monument

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

Space Murals Museum

Las Cruces, New Mexico

Space Murals Museum

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

Teal McDonald's Arches

Sedona, Arizona

Teal McDonald's Arches

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

The memorial to the Jewish pioneers.

Tombstone, Arizona

Jewish Pioneers Memorial

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

Behold, the world's largest chile pepper.

Las Cruces, New Mexico

World's Largest Chile Pepper Sculpture

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

Ingram Dam

Ingram, Texas

Ingram Dam

A dam that moonlights as a gigantic, brutalist waterslide.

82 degree turquoise water boils forth from a pool seemingly carved out of the snow.

Dolores, Colorado

Geyser Spring Trail

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.

Memorial Rock

Dolores, Colorado

Memorial Rock

A boulder so big and tough, they had to turn it into a landmark.

Redstone Coke Ovens

Carbondale, Colorado

Redstone Coke Ovens

Once owned by the largest employer in Colorado, these ovens have been abandoned for over a century.

Klyde Warren Park

Dallas, Texas

Klyde Warren Park

A city park that sits on top of a freeway.

Plaques along the trail at Earthquake Park share information about the event and its lasting effects on the region.

Anchorage, Alaska

Earthquake Park

The now-serene site of the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America.

Analog synth at Switched On
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Austin, Texas

Switched On

A synth musician's paradise at the heart of a community responsible for the soundtrack to 'Stranger Things.'

A condemned Onion Creek house awaiting demolition

Austin, Texas

Ghost Streets of Onion Creek

An entire subdivision was accidentally built on a flood plain, resulting in its eventual demolition—but the streets are still there.

View from bonnell

Austin, Texas

Mount Bonnell

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

Longview Cemetery

Austin, Texas

Longview Cemetery

A tiny graveyard with a mysterious past.

The dome as seen from where the trail tops out on the tephra ring.

Lee Vining, California

Panum Crater

A volcanic cone that formed over 600 years ago.

Interpretive sign courtesy of E Clampus Vitus.

Mono Mills, California

Mono Mills

A relic of the region's once booming timber industry.

Obsidian Dome

June Lake, California

Obsidian Dome

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

Skeleton of the Yellow Creek Nuclear Reactor

Iuka, Mississippi

Yellow Creek Nuclear Power Plant

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

Runoff Collection Pond from Mine Tailings in Leadville Mining District.

Leadville, Colorado

Leadville's Abandoned Silver Mine

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

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