Fort Collins, Colorado
Swetsville Zoo
This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.
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Fort Collins, Colorado
This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.
Pueblo, Colorado
A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.
Estes Park, Colorado
The start of the group that straightened the teeth of a nation.
Breckenridge, Colorado
A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.
Antonito, Colorado
An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.
Denver, Colorado
The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
New Orleans, Louisiana
According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.
Forks, Washington
A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.
Forks, Washington
A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.
North Bend, Washington
Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.
Forks, Washington
Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.
Tarpon Springs, Florida
This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."
Copenhagen, Denmark
This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.
Denver, Colorado
This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.
Tampa, Florida
An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.
Moab, Utah
This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
St. Augustine, Florida
A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.
Golden, Colorado
The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.