Places sierrawest Wants to Go

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

All that remains of this once-booming mining town are the ruins of a saloon.

This memorial pays homage to Pueblo's four Medal of Honor recipients.

This National Natural Landmark is one of the best examples of a “mass wasting” in the world.

This fully restored synagogue explores the American Jewish experience along the old frontier.

The temporary burial site of the man who shot and killed Jesse James.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

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

A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.

A memorial dedicated to the victims of the Columbine High School shootings.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

Above Breckenridge, a destructive mining technique sits sunken in a small pond.

Despite the name, this narrow bridge isn't very dangerous at all.

The tennis legend used this racket while breaking the race barrier and becoming the first Black man to win the US Open.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.

The idyllic colonial home of the artist behind the famous portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

Eco-friendly island mansion.