Castle Valley, Utah
Fisher Towers
These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.
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Castle Valley, Utah
These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.
Little America, Wyoming
Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.
Gateway, Colorado
Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.
Cisco, Utah
Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.
Redlands, Colorado
For over a century, it has been a tradition to raise a flag at the top of this 450-foot sandstone pillar on the 4th of July.
Montrose, Colorado
An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.
Montrose, Colorado
A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.
Carbondale, Colorado
A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.
Leadville, Colorado
At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.
Leadville, Colorado
This 19th-century house museum features a horse-drawn hearse and other antique oddities.
Gypsum, Colorado
Colorado's only active volcano last erupted around 4,000 years ago.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.
Parachute, Colorado
The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.
Rawlins, Wyoming
This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.
Silver Plume, Colorado
This cliffside memorial marks the final resting place of a lonely violinist.
Evergreen, Colorado
The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.
Winter Park, Colorado
These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.
Marion, Kentucky
Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.
Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Pomona, Illinois
A natural sandstone bridge nestled within a mature forest in southern Illinois.
Carbondale, Illinois
The only dome home to be owned or occupied by dome inventor Buckminster Fuller.