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

Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

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 final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.