A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

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.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

This tiny tropical village was sick of anonymity so the locals made this sign, which actually changed the name of the town.

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

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

A replica of the home of a famous fictional troll family.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

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

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

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

Travel through the wholesome amusements of yesteryear at this charming miniature village.

A memorial dedicated to the victims of the Columbine High School shootings.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

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

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.