At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

Run by members of the Tohono O'odham Nation, this community farm nurtures traditional desert cultivars.

A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.

An abandoned sawmill from more than 134 years ago stands testament to the ambition of one man.

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found at a weekend swap meet.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

The remains of this rugged homestead ranch offer a brief glimpse into a bygone era.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

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 remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

Concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland which were used to align spy satellites.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."