At first glance, this area seems like just another city park, but the lush landscape hides a dark past.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

This fairytale inspired, warped building houses restaurants, shops, and a radio station.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.

Take a self-guided tour through one of Colorado's most elevated mining districts.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Inside this casino, visitors are treated to slot machines and a rare German Christmas pyramid.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.