This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

An innovative local park built from an abandoned sewage treatment plant.

The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.

In a dry, neglected cemetery lies the unassuming grave of a soldier vilified in life but celebrated in death.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

This was once the home of Gahan's Saloon, Denver's most storied speakeasy.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

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

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

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.