Crestone, Colorado
Crestone Ziggurat
Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.
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Crestone, Colorado
Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.
Aguilar, Colorado
A short tunnel built straight through a magmatic dike.
Moffat, Colorado
Community owned and operated, this property is home to a diverse set of nudists.
Center, Colorado
One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.
Bellvue, Colorado
The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.
Sedona, Arizona
A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.
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.
Nederland, Colorado
One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.
Estes Park, Colorado
An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.
Stratton, Colorado
When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.
Burlington, Colorado
One of few remaining antique carousels with stationary animals in the U.S.
La Junta, Colorado
Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.
Keyes, Colorado
This marker identifies the location where three states converge.
Kenton, Oklahoma
The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.
Burnsville, North Carolina
The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.
Petersburg, Kentucky
A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."
Bryson City, North Carolina
This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.
Little Falls, Minnesota
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Washington, D.C.
There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.
Birmingham, Alabama
This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.
Peebles, Ohio
The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
New York, New York
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.