Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

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

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.