Places Edited by Brett Iredell

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.