This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

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

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

This statue of an obscure comic strip hero stands as a tribute to patriotic service and a cautionary tale about embracing fads.

A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

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

"All Mountains - All The Time."

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

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.