In the 1950s, two women saved this grand theater in the Colorado mountains from demolition.

This statue of an obscure comic strip hero stands as a tribute to patriotic service and a cautionary tale about embracing fads.

A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

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

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

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

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

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

Up-close opportunities to see working birds of prey.

Volunteers spent years restoring a vintage steam locomotive to operating condition.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.