Native Americans

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

The highest point in Tennessee is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.