This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

These bronze sculptures sow whimsy by hamming it up on a pedestrian mall.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

This building is more than 250 years old and was built in one of the first towns settled in Massachusetts.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.