The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

In a small Japanese garden off a busy Denver street, a memorial to a brave, principled politician.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.