A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

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

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

A stone troll guards the hike that leads to this waterfall.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

The oldest operating steam locomotive in Canada runs along this heritage railway.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.