This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

A monument to the egos of two railroad magnates that fell into decline along with their careers.

The childhood home of Henry Jones Jr. is now an adventure-themed bed and breakfast.

Metal water storage tank turned ethereal concert hall.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

The world's largest washing machine collection has more than 1,400 antique items in its exhibit.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

This dynamic entertainment venue brings a much-needed funkiness to the region with its bizarre art, eclectic films screenings, and peculiar performance pieces.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

This stone marker honors the man who released Canada goose goslings in Fort Collins, Colorado.

The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.