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A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

A quiet rock and botanical garden is the beautiful centerpiece of Fort Lewis College.

This shrine is an ode to the region's rich Hispanic heritage.

The remnants of a 1970 plane crash remain high in the Rocky Mountains.

Take a self-guided tour through one of Colorado's most elevated mining districts.

Ute tour guides have been sharing the ancient dwellings and rock art inside this large park with visitors for more than 40 years.

The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

An innovative local park built from an abandoned sewage treatment plant.

A tiny nondenominational church harkens back to the days of the first homesteaders in the region.

The site of a defunct mill, that once supplied marble for the construction of the Lincoln Memorial.

This massive home was constructed by one of the greatest conservationists in Colorado history.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.