Colorado Springs, Colorado
Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun
This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.
Cascade, Colorado
This vintage theme park is peak Christmas kitsch—and it's open all summer.
Black Hawk, Colorado
The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.
Central City, Colorado
This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.
Gallup, New Mexico
This historic trading post has been serving the community since 1913.
Boulder, Colorado
When this 160-year-old church was being built, a stonemason included a hidden homage to his late daughter.
Boulder, Colorado
This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."
Tonalea, Arizona
The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.
Cameron, Arizona
More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.
Alamosa, Colorado
A picturesque (all-natural!) beach in a landlocked state.
Calhan, Colorado
Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.
Hurricane, Utah
A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.
Wickenburg, Arizona
Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.
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.
Green River, Utah
Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."
Moab, Utah
This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Monticello, Utah
Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.
Monticello, Utah
One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.
Kayenta, Arizona
Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.
Halchita, Utah
The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.
Mexican Hat, Utah
This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.