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madelinemesa

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Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Dylan

17 Room Ruin

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

JWill

Mystic Hot Springs

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

Added by zackofalltrades

Homestead Crater

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Added by gailberg

Springdale, Utah

The Narrows

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

lewblank

Added by lewblank

Salt Lake City, Utah

Saltair

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Added by zackofalltrades

Monowi, Nebraska

Monowi, Nebraska

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

Josh

Cavalier, North Dakota

Remote Sprint Launcher #3 Missile Site

Part of a secret 1970s nuclear defense program is now open to the public.

Added by sdoneski18

Nekoma, North Dakota

The Pyramid of North Dakota

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Garretson, South Dakota

Devil's Gulch

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

Added by katenjelly

Keystone, South Dakota

Hall of Records in Mount Rushmore

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

Dylan

Prairie Dog Town

Home of mutant livestock.

WhiteTrashPeg

Added by WhiteTrashPeg

Goodsprings, Nevada

Pioneer Saloon

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

Added by alexisr

White Pine County, Nevada

Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Pasadena, California

The Old YWCA Building

A landmark for a trailblazer for female architects and the designer of one of the most famous and opulent buildings in California.

Fish Rocks

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

kyleensrude

Added by kyleensrude

Buttonwillow, California

'Buttonwillow Bivouac'

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

jase

Hi Vista, California

Sanctuary Adventist Church

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

Jeremy Michael Brown

Added by Jeremy Michael Brown

Santa Rosa, California

Great West End Regatta

Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.

Added by aerialdomo

San Bernardino County, California

Mojave Phone Booth

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

Added by Natsuba

Litchfield, California

Secret - Abandoned Brothel

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

Rachel

Added by Rachel

Crescent City, California

Battery Point Light

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

Added by blameese

Richmond, California

TEPCO Beach

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

ckirwan

Added by ckirwan

Menlo Park, California

The Great Spirit Path

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.