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An abandoned World War II bunker is part of a chain that runs throughout Washington.

Irontown was founded in 1868, as a second attempt to mine iron from the nearby Iron Mountain.

See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.

The oldest automobile museum in the United States.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A mistaken marker makes an erroneous claim along the historic Old Divide Road.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

The lobby of this hotel near the U.S.-Mexico border features a stained-glass mural that measures 42 feet long and 6 feet tall.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

This nondescript tunnel has been featured in a number of iconic movies, from “Roger Rabbit” to “Back to the Future.”

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

A short but powerful waterfall resides amid Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

Catch a ride through the Pennsylvania countryside on this historic narrow-gauge railroad.

A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.