This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

The site of the first daylight, peacetime bank robbery by the James gang.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

Once a slice of Cold War-era military history, this museum is finding its future in the stars.

See the home and the range on which "Home on the Range" was arranged.

Romance fans worldwide make the pilgrimage to this group of historic covered bridges in rural Iowa.

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

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

The ruins of the northernmost pueblo in the Americas tell the story of a mixing of native cultures.

Homestead Cemetery hold the remains of the United States' first known professional tattoo artists.

Once a giant oak that served as the region's post office.

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

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

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

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.