Huntsville, Utah
Shooting Star Saloon
Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.
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Huntsville, Utah
Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.
Breckenridge, Colorado
Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.
Austin, Texas
An 18-foot-tall troll sculpture, made from recycled wood and materials found in nature.
Chardon, Ohio
Pay your respects at the final resting place of the man behind one of the best-known names in food.
Malta, Ohio
This underground holding cell was forgotten for over a century and rediscovered in the 1960s.
Moab, Utah
This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Cedar City, Utah
Irontown was founded in 1868, as a second attempt to mine iron from the nearby Iron Mountain.
Parowan, Utah
Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.
Provo, Utah
This large, castle-like structure is hidden amid the mountains on the grounds of the Utah State Hospital.
Jensen, Utah
Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Kayenta, Arizona
Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.
Tombstone, Arizona
The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.
Smartsville, California
Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.
Truckee, California
Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.
Reno, Nevada
This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.
Winnemucca, Nevada
This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.
Willow Creek, California
This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.
Eureka, California
A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.
Elko, Nevada
This arts and culture cultural center explores the diverse cultural heritage of the American West.
Elko, Nevada
The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.
Imlay, Nevada
The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."
Old Station, California
Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.