Places Lost Leopards Wants to Go

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

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

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.