Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

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

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

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

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

Dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

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

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

Mennes invented the tags we all place annually upon our license plates, and his story is told frankly and in full upon his headstone.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

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A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.