Cornish miners built this Wisconsin town, hosted the state's first territorial governor in 1836, and became one of the largest zinc producers on Earth. It's now sister cities with the actual Cornwall town the miners came from.

Facing a highway bypass in 1968, this Washington town didn't preserve its history — it built a fake one. Every building downtown still has to look like 1890 by law.

A copper town at the junction of three highways in the Nevada desert, where a century-old steam railroad still runs and a future First Lady was born to a mining family.

Founded in 1714, four years before New Orleans, this Louisiana town is the oldest permanent European settlement in the entire Louisiana Purchase — with brick streets, a six-week Christmas light festival, and the real backdrop of Steel Magnolias.

Founded in 1811, the first permanent American settlement west of the Rockies sits beside waters known as the Graveyard of the Pacific — nearly 2,000 shipwrecks and counting.

A Montana railroad town that lost its railroad — and is now bigger than it ever was when the trains were running.

During the Great Depression, a Virginia theater let people pay for tickets with ham and eggs instead of cash. It's now the longest continuously operating professional theater in the country.

Travel + Leisure named this thirteen-hundred-person Lake Superior town the best small lake town in America. It earned the title with an art colony, a folk school, and a fishing festival that outnumbers the locals.

In 2016, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake — Oklahoma's strongest ever — shook this Pawnee tribal town, caused by oil and gas wastewater pumped underground for decades.

On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers crossed a bridge in Selma, Alabama and changed the country. The bridge is still there, and so is the road they walked.