This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.

Final resting place of a 19th century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

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

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

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

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

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Mexican food and folk art.

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

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.