Colorado Springs, Colorado
Garden of the Gods
Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.
Cañon City, Colorado
The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.
Alamosa, Colorado
When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.
Rye, Colorado
The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Boston, Massachusetts
This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.
Boston, Massachusetts
A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.
Atchison, Kansas
The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."
Memphis, Tennessee
Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.
Deadwood, South Dakota
A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.
Rapid City, South Dakota
This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.
Rapid City, South Dakota
A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Mitchell, South Dakota
A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.
San Diego, California
North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.
Calico Rock, Arkansas
An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.
St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.
Springfield, Missouri
The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.