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Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.

This sandstone building is a relic of the Overland Trail.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

The Milburn-Price Culture Museum in Vega offers a brand-name oversized cultural attraction.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.