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Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

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

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

A granite monument honors a beloved World War II canine mascot.

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

This marker identifies the location where three states converge.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

What started as three small gnomes at the base of a tree has grown into a full-blown gnome home.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

This roadside attraction in the woods of Mississippi is a scalable replica of the Holy Lands during biblical times.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.