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This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

Vulture Mine was Arizona’s most productive gold mine, and instrumental to the development of Phoenix.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

The remains of a large pueblo village constructed by the Salado culture, who occupied the region more than 600 years ago.

A historic jail preserves etchings from over a century of incarcerated people in a town with a rough and tumble past.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

Arizona's first government hub is a rustic cabin now preserved as part of a historical museum.

This Prescott institution is widely considered the oldest bar in Arizona.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.