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Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

Neal Cassady may still have an open tab at one of Denver’s oldest watering holes.

One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

Old neon signs from the City of Brotherly Love provide a snapshot of the city’s evolution.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

Known locally as "the giant head," this 14-foot LED sculpture has a photo booth in the neck where you can have a 3D picture taken and displayed.

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

Grant Wood painted some of his most famous works of art at this studio.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

The only remaining African American schoolhouse in northern Virginia is now a museum dedicated to formerly enslaved people.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

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

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

This house turned museum chronicles the life and work of Richard Neutra.

This indie movie theater is one of only three surviving Mayan-themed theaters designed by “Detroit’s greatest theater architect.”