Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

An old railroad observation car at Heritage Station, a Baltimore & Ohio railroad station in downtown Huntington, West Virginia, that has been converted into assorted shops and restaurants

An old farm truck and a vintage school bus at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, West Virginia, just south of downtown Huntington

An old, now unnamed motor court, one of several mid-20th Century-vintage motels along North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs, Colorado

An old ore car within 1,500 feet of underground passages at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, a restored mine once operated by the Phillips Family in the late 1800s in what is now owned by the City of Beckley, West Virginia and located in the city's New River Park

An old barn with additions near Sandstone in Summers County, West Virginia

An old coaling tower that once served Chesapeake & Ohio steam locomotives moving through Bluefield, West Virginia

An old establishment in rural Hampshire County, West Virginia, whose best days have passed

An old log church at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, in Harveytown, West Virginia, just south of downtown Huntington

An old monument marking the famous Mason-Dixon Line, the demarcation between free and slave states before the U.S. Civil War. This one sits on another line, barely into Wetzel County, next to Marshall County in West Virginia

An old barn made of hand-sawn stone like many buildings in the town of Holly, near the Kansas line in Prowers County, Colorado

An old wrecker service's garage in Walsenburg, Colorado

An old creamery in Crested Butte, a town heavily populated during ski season located high in the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado

An old rail flat car loaded with mining equipment within 1,500 feet of underground passages at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, a restored mine once operated by the Phillips Family in the late 1800s in what is now owned by the City of Beckley, West Virginia and located in the city's New River Park

An old coaling tower that once served Chesapeake & Ohio locomotives moving through Hinton, West Virginia

An outbuilding, receiving energy from its own solar panel, at the Mountain Institute, a community of conservationists on the slopes of Spruce Knob, the highest point in the Allegheny Mountains in Pendleton County, West Virginia

An old, rusted bridge to Middle Island in the Ohio River, in St. Marys, West Virginia

An owl and its prey, prime examples of taxidermy preserved for more than 100 years in the Crook County Museum in Sundance, Wyoming

Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, the International Mother's Day Shrine. Grafton, West Virginia

Apple Grove chemical plant

Arched windows with a mountain view inside Bishop's Castle, a most eclectic art installation 9,000 feet high in the mountains of southern Colorado, up a winding road from San Isabel in San Isabel National Forest

Architectural detail of the Capitol Theatre building, also known as the Capitol Music Hall, in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia

Building Wheeling, West Virginia

Building: Hayden Block. Ouray, Colorado

Architectural details. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania

Archway in Huntington, West Virginia's Ritter Park

Arleta Mae Shining Star Plummer, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a gathering of North American Native People. She is of Chippewa and Cree heritage and was raised on the Fort Belknap Reservation in northern Montana

Arrastra Gulch, high above Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado, which one swarmed with silver prospectors and prosperous mines that, in the late 1800s, made Silverton a boomtown

Array of old gasoline pumps and signs outside tourist cabins in Seneca Rocks, West Virginia

Art deco detail above the entrance to City Hall in Laramie, Wyoming

Artist Larry Akers's "Beginning of an Era Gone By" on a downtown Bluefield, West Virginia, building depicts the days when Bluefield was a booming railroad town, often called the "Camelot of Appalachia"

Assembly Hall at the Jackson's Mill 4-H Camp Historic District, also known as West Virginia University Jackson's Mill, a historic 4-H camp and national historic district near Weston in Lewis County, West Virginia

At Breckenridge, Colorado's Blue River Plaza, frolickers enjoy the river of the same name

Aspen trees along the high dirt road leading to Crested Butte, Colorado, from the distant Crystal River Valley

At the distinctive White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, site of the annual Wyoming State Fair

At the Garden of the Gods, a spectacular public park in Colorado Springs, Colorado (a few outcroppings of which can be seen in the distance), historical re-enactor Dave Wallace portrays legendary "mountain man" Jedediah Smith

At Breckenridge, Colorado's Blue River Plaza, frolickers enjoy the river of the same name. The building in the distance is the Breckenridge Welcome Center

At Breckenridge, Colorado's Blue River Plaza, residents and visitors enjoy the river of the same name near what was once the site of old gold mines. The building in the distance is the Breckenridge Welcome Center

At Breckenridge, Colorado's Blue River Plaza, residents and visitors enjoy the river of the same name near what was once the site of old gold mines. The piece of a building to the left belongs to the Breckenridge Welcome Center

Attentive cows on the Ralph O. Lamp farm in Hampshire County, West Virginia

Attractive horses in rural Hampshire County, West Virginia

Attractive building at 96 12th Street in Wheeling, West Virginia's Monroe Street East Historic District

Attractive house in New Cumberland, West Virginia

Attractive footbridge over a mountain stream along the winding road to the Maroon Bells, just outside Aspen, Colorado

Ayres Natural Bridge in Converse County, near Douglas, is considered one of Wyoming's first tourist attractions

Balanced Rock in the Garden of the Gods, a public park, but also an international tourist attraction, packed with red-rock formations in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Balanced Rockin the Garden of the Gods, a public park, but also an international tourist attraction, packed with red-rock formations in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Barn and vine-encrusted silo in rural Ohio County, West Virginia

Barn and farm scene in Pocahontas County, West Virginia

Barn at Elmwood Mansion, also known as the Hugh Caperton House, a historic home in Union, West Virginia

Barn and fall scene near Buckhannon in Upshur County, West Virginia

Barber shop in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Cass within what is now (2015) the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia

Barn on the grounds of the Stephen Decatur Lawrence Homestead, Opal Lawrence Historical Park, Mesquite, Texas

Barn in Jefferson County, West Virginia

Barn sale sign along U.S. 34, the route to Rocky Mountain National Park between Loveland and Estes Park in Larimer County, Colorado. It's not a barn that's for sale, but a variety of goods; the rural term is akin to a "yard sale," but inside

Barn with an apparent addition near the town of Sam Black Church, in Greenbrier County, West Virginia

Barns on West Virginia's Rural Heritage Quilt Trail, exemplified by the colorful "quilt block" (actually the painting of a quilt pattern) on the barn on the right near Greenville in Monroe County. The design is based on a quilt square sewn by Doris McCurdy

Barns at the Hadley SY cattle and horse ranch in Crook County, Wyoming, near Sundance

Bastien's restaurant, featuring cocktails and "sugar steak," in Denver, Colorado

Bathhouse colonnade of the now-derelict (in 2015) Sweet Springs health resort, once famous for its supposedly curative warm waters, which opened in 1833 in Monroe County, Virginia (later West Virginia)

Bear Creek Falls in the San Juan Mountains, Telluride, Colorado