A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

The world's only known button museum.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

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

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.