Leadville, Colorado
Irish Miners’ Memorial and Cemetery
Thousands of unmarked, sunken graves in a pauper's cemetery.
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Leadville, Colorado
Thousands of unmarked, sunken graves in a pauper's cemetery.
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Denver, Colorado
Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.
Penrose, Colorado
The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.
Cripple Creek, Colorado
Inside this casino, visitors are treated to slot machines and a rare German Christmas pyramid.
Cripple Creek, Colorado
This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.
Cascade, Colorado
This vintage theme park is peak Christmas kitsch—and it's open all summer.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.
Trinidad, Colorado
This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.
Trinidad, Colorado
The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.
Riverside, Ohio
Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.
Dayton, Ohio
You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.
Peebles, Ohio
The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
Waverly, Virginia
A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.
Smithfield, Virginia
This one-room schoolhouse was revitalized in 2007 as a museum focusing on the education of Black children during the early 20th-century.
Hopewell, Virginia
For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.
Petersburg, Virginia
An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.
Petersburg, Virginia
A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.
Washington, D.C.
Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.
Washington, D.C.
Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.
Washington, D.C.
Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.
Corolla, North Carolina
One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.