This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

This dynamic entertainment venue brings a much-needed funkiness to the region with its bizarre art, eclectic films screenings, and peculiar performance pieces.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

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.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.