These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

This arts and culture cultural center explores the diverse cultural heritage of the American West.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.