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One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

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

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

A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.

A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.

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

A creek tumbles over a series of step-like rocks to create this scenic water feature.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

A lava tube cooled to form this long tunnel that stays chilly even at the height of summer.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.