A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

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

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

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

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.