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

This fully restored synagogue explores the American Jewish experience along the old frontier.

A focal point of in Denver’s skyline for over a century, inspired by a Venetian basilica.

This Colorado fire station has been in continuous operation for more than a century.

Check out a hidden collection of vintage neon signs.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

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

This 19th-century windmill was moved, stone by stone, in the middle of Kansas.

Salina's eye-catching giant mural depicting children at play is painted atop a century-old mill elevator.

This historic railroad hotel built from Kansas limestone was once the most popular hotels for traveling salesmen in the midwest.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.