Places fnc122431 Wants to Go

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

Operational for less than a year, this mill produced more than 11,000 tons of chrome concentrate in its short lifespan.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

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

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

This Texas home and garden was the masterpiece of a British portrait painter.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.