At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his monicker to peaks.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

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

This is one really big nut.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

Founded in 1925, this folk school attracts students from across the country and preserves traditional Appalachian art.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.