This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

A whimsical roadside community of little metal people.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

A private Las Vegas horse ranch adorned with whimsical artwork.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

An ADA-accessible trail and deck offering stunning views of Colorado’s Mount of the Holy Cross.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

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

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

Metal water storage tank turned ethereal concert hall.

A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.

This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, never been to New York.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.