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The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

This historic home has survived wars, drought, and financial woes to become a California landmark.

Hidden deep in the Joshua Tree Wilderness, this 1940s miner's cabin built into a gap between two mega-sized boulders.

Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.

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

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

Community owned and operated, this property is home to a diverse set of nudists.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

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

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.