A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

This former shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

Two well-preserved charcoal kilns survive in a remote part of eastern Nevada.

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

The lost ruins of the forgotten ferry lie hidden beneath the silt.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

A memorial to the firefighters who died in an industrial disaster is housed in a small public park.

A century-old miner's quarters turned mansion.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

More than 25 fully functional scale replicas of famous lighthouses dot the shores of Lake Havasu.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.