A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

This abandoned mine offers a glimpse at what life was like for those who came to Alaska seeking Gold Rush riches.

This museum, established in Butte's lost Chinatown, celebrates Asian-American culture in what was once the world's largest mining camp.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

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

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.