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

A whimsical roadside community of little metal people.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

The world's largest mineral hot springs is home to a herd of bison, a free public bath house, beautiful mineral formations, and a terrifying swinging bridge.

This archaeological dig site and museum is home to one of the largest dinosaur fossil collections in the world.

This museum details the history of a local miracle: The return of the critically endangered black-footed ferret, which was once believed to be extinct.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

At the time of its completion, it was the tallest dam in the world.

This old-school soda shop is the home of the Tin Roof Sundae, a concoction dripping in chocolate, marshmallow, and peanuts.

A tribute to the riders who bridged East and West.

A museum chronicling pioneer life constructed over Interstate 80.

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

A unique work of outsider art sourced from scrap metals and signifies conservation.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.