Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his moniker to peaks.

All that remains of this once-booming mining town are the ruins of a saloon.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

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

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.

The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.

A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.

Inside this casino, visitors are treated to slot machines and a rare German Christmas pyramid.

A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

Take a self-guided tour through one of Colorado's most elevated mining districts.