An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

More than 100 steam and diesel locomotives bring Colorado’s rail heritage to life.

This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.

This notorious dive has been serving up both kinds of spirits since 1879.

No longer the only, but definitely the oldest, fountain in Greenland.

One Greenland town turned itself into an open air sculpture gallery with the help of a series of traditional stone artworks.

A free museum that memorializes the deadliest river flood in American history, and the civil engineering efforts to tame the Mississippi River.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

An excursion train traverses a picturesque red-rock canyon along the Verde River.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

Slip in a slide while waiting for the ferry.

A massive environmental project transformed this former smelter into a beautiful park.

This municipal sundial has been keeping time along Tacoma's Commencement Bay since 1978.

This landmark vessel dry-berthed in Tacoma's harbor served in emergencies and ceremonies for more than 50 years.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.

This Old West hotel, the longest in continuous operation in the state of Arizona, is claimed to be haunted.