This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.

An urban laboratory.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

Step back in time while shopping inside this local store.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

One of El Paso's oldest dives may have inspired the classic Marty Robbins song.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

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

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

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

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.