Castle Rock, Colorado
Castlewood Canyon Dam Ruins
The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.
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Castle Rock, Colorado
The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.
Red Cliff, Colorado
Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.
Trinidad, Colorado
The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.
Middlesboro, Kentucky
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.
West Glacier, Montana
The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Los Angeles, California
The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.
San Francisco, California
Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.
Yavapai County, Arizona
Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Boston, Massachusetts
Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
Seattle, Washington
A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.
Point Lookout, Missouri
This museum features the original car used on the Beverly Hillbillies sitcom.
Wichita, Kansas
The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.
Magdalena, New Mexico
The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.
Comstock, Texas
Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.
Sonora, Texas
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Big Bend National Park, Texas
An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.