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Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

It's hip to be square in Iola, home of the largest town square in the United States.

An artistically engineered dam designed to honor the relationship between humankind and nature.

This small, independent museum documents the unique culture of Deaf people in the United States.

This vivid painted ceramic sculpture evokes the expansiveness of the prairie sky.

Kansas's Grassroots Art Capital welcomes visitors to Lucas through its very own World's Largest Thing.

A monument celebrating the Black soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry.

This unfinished tribute to a hometown hero and early baseball great is now an abandoned roadside attraction.