This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

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

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

Final resting place of a 19th century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

Victorian "Fancy Craft" Hair Wreaths and Relics.

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

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

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

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

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

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

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.