Places Added by Mike Walker

See every month of the year personified at this opulent Turinese fountain.

A Portland legend tells of small green archers shooting random passersby with visionary arrows.

Fill up your senses in this beautiful riverside garden, dedicated to the works of singer-songwriter John Denver.

Mysterious markers have been giving the public a lesson in dendrochronology for over a century.

This rural bridge gave the government of West Virginia a red scare.

The worst road in Colorado is the main gateway to some of its highest peaks.

Three bronze beauty queens welcome you to “Miss America University.”

Have a heavy metal Christmas at this bizarre Turkish-American restaurant.

The resolution to a case that had gone cold for 120 years, found on an old piece of wood.

A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.

See the imprints of ancient trees, burned and preserved by lava.

A beautiful botanical garden in the heart of the Natural State.

Get your gift of the gab on Route 66.

A mural and a few historical markers commemorate Denver's once-thriving Chinatown, which was obliterated in a racist riot.

Experience life in one of America’s smallest neighborhoods.

A beautiful modern church dedicated to the teleporting patron saint of Andorra.

This cheery fruit farmer welcomes visitors to a classic roadside emporium.

It’s hard to believe this hostile landscape was once a health resort.

You can still walk across this beautiful medieval bridge in Andorra.

This sinister Baroque entryway could lead you to a terrible fate.

A short tunnel built straight through a magmatic dike.

This distinctive snowfield on the slopes of a Colorado fourteener has several legendary origin stories.

A short interpretive trail about one of the first human cultures in North America.

This 19th-century house museum features a horse-drawn hearse and other antique oddities.