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

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

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

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

This mass grave for victims of a massive hurricane remained hidden until 1991.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

This general store is stocked with memorabilia from the 1930s onward—almost none of it for sale.

Though illegal, city officials have made an exception for this work of art.

A trek through the solar system here on earth.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.