The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

A plaque on the side of a parking garage marks the burial place of a great Ottawa chief.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.