A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Constructed in 1882, this jail once housed local inmates and the sheriff's family all under one roof.