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A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.

A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.

This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, but has never been to New York.

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

An innovative local park built from an abandoned sewage treatment plant.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

This once rural mansion now sits in the heart of the city.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.