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

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

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

This graceful little figure is a one-of-a-kind version of the cherished character.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.