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The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

This comprehensive collection features Native American artifacts dating back centuries.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

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

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.

Hike the unusual hoodoos and rock formations that form this little-known natural wonder.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

A community-funded monument to kindness in the face of life's difficulties.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.