Shawnee, Wyoming
Lost Springs
Population: 1.
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Shawnee, Wyoming
Population: 1.
Denver, Colorado
A focal point of in Denver’s skyline for over a century, inspired by a Venetian basilica.
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Estes Park, Colorado
Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
Jerome, Arizona
A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.
Phoenix, Arizona
A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.
Roosevelt, Arizona
This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.
Jerome, Arizona
On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.
Salt Lake City, Utah
A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.
San Antonio, Texas
An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.
Houston, Texas
Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.
Houston, Texas
An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.
Houston, Texas
A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.
Wallace, Idaho
A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.
Los Angeles, California
This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.
Los Angeles, California
The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.
Los Angeles, California
The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.
Tuskegee, Alabama
Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.
Birmingham, Alabama
Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.
Huntsville, Alabama
Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.
St. Augustine, Florida
The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.