A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

A trove of ridiculously valuable prints and manuscripts under one roof.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

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

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

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

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

"All Mountains - All The Time."

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

This sidewalk tribute honors Colorado's great culinary creation.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.