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A historic jail preserves etchings from over a century of incarcerated people in a town with a rough and tumble past.

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

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

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

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

This airfield played a key role in both World War II and the Cold War.

Built in 1899, this luxurious home was part of one of the first gated communities in Los Angeles.

An underground wonderland in Iowa.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

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

This church was constructed by a shipbuilder and designed like an upside-down boat.

A tiny town’s tiny museum with some gigantic residents.

This rock formation above the Wabash River is part of an ancient coral reef.

Once named the “world’s oldest gas station” due to its unusual construction material.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.

The first lookout in Yosemite.

The first blast furnace in the United States that used coal and coke fuel instead of charcoal to make pig iron.

This former smelter is a crumbling ruin, with the exception of its towering smokestack.