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An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Although now a decaying ruin, this stone cabin's history includes several notable figures.

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

This mysterious and creepy location instills a strong sense of foreboding in all visitors.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

One of the last few period-correct, hand-operated canal locks in the country.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.