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The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

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

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

Visitors to this museum will uncover a whimsical collection of marbles from across time.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

An artistically engineered dam designed to honor the relationship between humankind and nature.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.

A memorial to the most decisive Native American victory of the Plains Indian War.

Crystal clear, drinkable mountain spring water by the side of the road.

After Havre burned down, the best place to build was under the ashes.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

This largest dinosaur tracksite in Wyoming is one of the only in the world from the Middle Jurassic Period.