Places Edited by Curious Crow

Built in 1890, this is the last remaining wooden fire bell tower in the United States.

A mining camp built around an unexpected occurrence of silver.

In eastern Oregon, two mineral hot springs sit along the Malheur River in a fairly desolate area where peace and quiet are abound.

An abandoned early 20th-century gold mine in a spectacular setting overlooking Bridgeport Valley and the Sierra Nevada.

Exhibiting the tallest structure of its type in Nevada, this massive mining complex is frozen in time.

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

A geothermal paradise with bubbling mud pools and bright blue hot springs.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.

The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.