Lakewood, Colorado
Casa Bonita
At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.
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Lakewood, Colorado
At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.
Bristol, Virginia
Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.
Bristol, Virginia
One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.
Mouth of Wilson, Virginia
The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.
Tallinn, Estonia
An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.
Pie Town, New Mexico
This popular pitstop lives up to its name.
Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico
This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his moniker to peaks.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
At this research institute, the chile is king.
Los Cerrillos, New Mexico
This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.
Abiquiu, New Mexico
Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.
Jemez Springs, New Mexico
A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.
Silver City, New Mexico
These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
This is one really big nut.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.
Farmington, New Mexico
Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.
Bloomfield, New Mexico
The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.
Kansas City, Missouri
This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.
Brasstown, North Carolina
Founded in 1925, this folk school attracts students from across the country and preserves traditional Appalachian art.
Lake Lure, North Carolina
Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.