A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "Dismalites" .

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man's Land.

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

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

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

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.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Hidden high on a remote mountain peak is a humbling and mysterious Vietnam War memorial.

At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.