In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A blast of nostalgia awaits visitors to this miniature indoor raceway.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

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.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

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

Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

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

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

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.