Places Edited by Brett Iredell

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

More than 500 unique and specially designed cases collected by D.C.'s "Harmonica Case Man."

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

"May the force be with you always."

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.