Payson, Arizona
Abandoned Mineral Belt Railroad Tunnel
A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.
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Payson, Arizona
A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.
Prescott, Arizona
Arizona's first government hub is a rustic cabin now preserved as part of a historical museum.
Grand Canyon Village, Arizona
A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.
Grand Canyon Village, Arizona
The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.
Fort Sumner, New Mexico
A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.
Capitan, New Mexico
The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.
Salina, Utah
Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.
Delta, Utah
A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.
Alexandria, Virginia
This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.
Montrose, Colorado
An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.
Breckenridge, Colorado
A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.
Delta, Colorado
The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.
Lorton, Virginia
Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.
Lanham, Maryland
A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.
Port Royal, Virginia
The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.
Laurel, Maryland
A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.
Washington, D.C.
It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.
Newburyport, Massachusetts
A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.
Delmar, Maryland
The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.
Laurel, Maryland
This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.
Whitesville, West Virginia
A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.
Parachute, Colorado
The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.
Syria, Virginia
Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.