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Hidden places in United States

2 uncrowded places in United States, away from Washington, D.C.: quiet towns, geological oddities and free-to-enter ruins.

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Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, Wilderness in New Mexico, United States
Geological oddities United States · New Mexico

Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness

A badlands of hoodoos, petrified logs and mushroom-capped rock in shale the colour of ash, with no trails and no signs.

Coordinates
36°15′36″N 108°15′00″W
Crowds
Usually empty
Landscape
Desert
Best season
Best in Shoulder
Rhyolite, Nevada, Ghost town in Nevada, United States
Forgotten ruins United States · Nevada

Rhyolite

The concrete skeletons of a 1905 gold-rush city at the edge of Death Valley: a three-storey bank, a railway depot and a house built of bottles.

Coordinates
36°54′11″N 116°49′41″W
Crowds
Quiet
Landscape
Desert
Best season
Best in Winter