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The empty town of Scenic, South Dakota, is owned by a church in the Philippines.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

This 19th century Sioux City candy company is the home of the Twin Bing, a historic, chocolate-covered treat.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

An enormous factory from the late 1800s sits abandoned on Cleveland eastside.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A lingering bit of Space Race nostalgia lies in the middle of the desert.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Colorful sedimentary rock layers provide opportunities both for hiking and photography.

Anyone can play paleontologist at this quarry that has Cambrian fossils galore.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

This hiking/biking/horse trail along an old railroad grade features trestles, tunnels, and a roadless stretch through the scenic Susan River canyon.

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