The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

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

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

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

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

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

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

A focal point of in Denver’s skyline for over a century, inspired by a Venetian basilica.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.