This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

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

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.