The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

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

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

"You don't need a rocket scientist to build a steam engine, but we've got one." -Museum docent on the credentials of a restoration volunteer.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.