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A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

The lost ruins of the forgotten ferry lie hidden beneath the silt.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

America's first public mental health facility.

An original apothecary from 1792.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

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

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.