Places eecarter Wants to Go

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

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

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Population: 1.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

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

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

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

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

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

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.