In 1917, over a thousand striking copper miners were rounded up at gunpoint and dumped in the desert. Decades later, the empty houses they left behind became one of Arizona's great arts towns.

A Washington seaport built for a transcontinental railroad that never arrived. The bust that followed preserved an entire Victorian city, untouched, for nearly a century.

We told you Eastport was the easternmost city in America. Eleven miles south, Lubec has the actual easternmost point — and a lighthouse, a bridge to Canada, and a marathon that crosses the border on foot.

A Colorado mining town at 9,318 feet, where the EPA accidentally caused a 3-million-gallon mine spill in 2015 — and the town that depends on tourists asked the federal government in anyway.

The loneliest town on the loneliest road in America — a Nevada silver camp that went from nine thousand people to under four hundred and kept every building standing anyway.

John Brown seized a federal armory here in 1859, hoping to end slavery by force. Eighteen months later, the Civil War began. The rivers and the rocks are exactly where he left them.

A Texas border town where families live on both sides of the Rio Grande, and people have farmed the same bend in the river for thirty-five hundred years.

A Florida doctor invented mechanical refrigeration here while treating yellow fever patients — and the town's oyster bay, closed for years, is finally coming back.

In the 1840s, one small Illinois town produced eighty percent of the nation's lead — and later became the home Ulysses S. Grant returned to after the Civil War. Population 3,207. Worth the detour.

A silver-mining town in the Idaho mountains once stopped an interstate highway cold. The last traffic signal on I-90 between Seattle and Boston is gone because Wallace said no.