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

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

This Oregon farm is dedicated to teaching people the professional art of tree climbing.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

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

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.