The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

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

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

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

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

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

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

Rare and gorgeous birds abound in this protected wildlife sanctuary.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

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

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

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.