Colorado Springs, Colorado
Tuberculosis Huts
Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.
Cripple Creek, Colorado
This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.
Durango, Colorado
This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.
Cañon City, Colorado
The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.
Rye, Colorado
The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.
Houston, Texas
The largest underground pedestrian tunnel system in the U.S. mostly caters to the people working in the offices above, but provides a great, air-conditioned way to traverse the city.
Houston, Texas
The only airport with a people mover system designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.
Dallas, Texas
A city park that sits on top of a freeway.
Grapevine, Texas
A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.
Austin, Texas
Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.
Graford, Texas
The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.
West, Texas
Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.
Huntsville, Texas
The world's tallest statue of an American hero.
Irving, Texas
This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.
Nacogdoches, Texas
Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.
San Antonio, Texas
Established in 1925, Kiddie Park claims to be the oldest amusement park in the U.S. - a cozy little time warp nestled in a shady corner of the modern world.
Waco, Texas
Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.
New Braunfels, Texas
Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.