Wild West

Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.

With the Wild Bunch hunted almost to extinction and the law closing in on him, Butch Cassidy fled to this remote cabin in Argentina.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.