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

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

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

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

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.

This liminal destination combines creaky carnival rides, a classic car museum, and luck-of-the-draw flea market finds surrounded by dust and drive-in movie screens.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

The story of the country’s most famous sports magazine began at a historic Myrtle Beach golf club.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.