The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

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

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Opened in 1911, this small shop is the oldest ongoing establishment in St. George.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

This fully restored synagogue explores the American Jewish experience along the old frontier.

The home of a formerly enslaved man who went on to become a prospector, entrepreneur, and activist for Black rights.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.