Toss a Frisbee through the ruins of this Colorado gold mining town.

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

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

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

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

The holiday spirit lingers year-round in the "Christmas City of the High Plains."

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

This museum houses artifacts from American adventurers and filmmakers Martin and Osa Johnson.

A celebration of the animation wizard's childhood home and antique railroad memorabilia collection.

A number of gruesome unsolved murders have turned this simple home into a morbid tourist trap.

The oldest purpose-built cinema still in operation also houses a museum of movie memorabilia.