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This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

A total of 14 men held the title of "president" before George Washington—their historical legacies are enshrined in the lobby of a hotel.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

Decor at “Nevada’s Oldest Thirst Parlor” includes Raquel Welch's brassiere hanging from a stuffed moose head.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.