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This drive-by, rotating mini-gallery is nestled in the suburbs of Colorado.

When this 160-year-old church was being built, a stonemason included a hidden homage to his late daughter.

How Quincy, Florida became the richest town per capita due to one man's shrewd business acumen and taste for fizzy drinks.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

Population: 1.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

A devilishly named gorge that was a sign of salvation for many pioneers.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

The easiest way to the highest point in Wyoming is only accessible via one hefty fee.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.