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One of “America’s Most Endangered Historic Places” is a building shaped like a giant turtle.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s airmail navigation network.

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.

A once-thriving hotel from the Old West now sits abandoned, under the threat of demolition.

A detailed, loving tribute to America's most isolated city.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

Bone marrow-loaded birria with handmade corn tortillas—need we say more?

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found here.

A restored 114-year-old railroad station heralded as the most photographed depot in the United States.

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

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

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.