This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

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

In a dry, neglected cemetery lies the unassuming grave of a soldier vilified in life but celebrated in death.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

One of few remaining antique carousels with stationary animals in the U.S.

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

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Other-worldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.