Places Edited by pjt236

This dry lake bed was once an emergency landing strip for military and experimental aircraft.

A collection of old shoes in the middle of nowhere.

Two well-preserved charcoal kilns survive in a remote part of eastern Nevada.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

A small museum dedicated to the king of Western swing.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.

Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.