Only a few remaining items alert intrepid explorers that a town once stood in this region.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

This Spokane mansion and the stories within its walls have been brought back to life, thanks to careful restoration.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

North America's first Indigenous-owned winery is located within Canada's only desert-like ecosystem.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

People come from across the globe to swim in this lake believed to have healing properties.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."