Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

A living museum dedicated to the legendary woodworker and his soulful furniture.

Mexican food and folk art.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

This century-old painting of a portly 10-foot-tall man spent years hidden behind plaster.

This roadside park filled with unusual statues is on the grounds of an abandoned railway station.

Homestead Cemetery hold the remains of the United States' first known professional tattoo artists.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.

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

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.

A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.

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

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

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

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.