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Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

An Illinois prairie preserve where the real show begins after sunset.

Dozens of large steel sculptures fill this two-acre park outside a former blacksmith's studio.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

Planes, trains, and automobiles have all been sunk as attractions at this Illinois diving spot.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.