When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

This eclectic collection documents the wild legacies of "America's Wickedest Street."

A short but powerful waterfall resides amid Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes.

This historic stone barn is the former home of legendary cattleman Charles “Lonesome Dove” Goodnight.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

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

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

Instead of hoofing it up steep stairs, residents can hitch a ride on this private lift.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.