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The ruins of a nineteenth century U.S. army fort. A harbinger of change in the region, the fort was a distribution hub for many of the smaller forts throughout the southwest, supplying the American military while it enforced its will on Native Americans. Later, a earthworks star fort was constructed on site to defend against confederate soldiers during the civil war. A one mile long trail winds through the remaining adobe-style walls of the old fort.
On July 16th, 1945 humanity entered into the era of nuclear warfare. The objective of the Manhattan Project was achieved here, in the remote New Mexican desert, when the world’s first nuclear device was exploded.
Three sites of ruined Spanish mission churches from the 17th century adjacent to ruins of Native American pueblos near Mountaineer in central New Mexico. Walk amongst the ruins to get a taste of what life may have been like during these contentious times.
The ghostly remains of a sixty room turn-of-the-century mansion stand guard over the Lake of the Ozarks in central Missouri.
The second U.S. National Monument, declared by Teddy Roosevelt in 1906. El Morro encompasses a large sandstone promontory with historical inscriptions, the ruins of a Native American Pueblo, and petroglyphs.
Ancestral cliff dwellings and the ruins of a pueblo hide in this isolated canyon outside of Los Alamos, New Mexico.
A monument to the western expansion of the United States. At 630ft tall, Gateway Arch is the tallest arch in the world, and the tallest manmade monument in the Western Hemisphere. Elevators inside the arch take visitors to the observation deck at the top, overlooking the city of St. Louis and the Mississippi River.
Famous cliff dwellings, villages built into the alcoves in the walls of mesas, in southern Colorado. Native American ruins are often overshadowed by those of the Inca and Maya, but here at Mesa Verde the engineering feats of the ancestral Puebloans are as inspiring as they are bewildering.
