An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

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

Above Breckenridge, a destructive mining technique sits sunken in a small pond.

The home of a formerly enslaved man who went on to become a prospector, entrepreneur, and activist for Black rights.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

A long and winding trail through history led to the current iteration of this mountaintop tower.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

Metal water storage tank turned ethereal concert hall.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.