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Creatures people keep reporting and nobody has caught.
Cheyenne, WY
A painted eight-foot boot outside the WyoLotto office in Cheyenne, carrying Yolo — the lottery's jackalope mascot, and a nod to Wyoming's horned-rabbit folklore. Whether there is a standalone jackalope statue here is unconfirmed.
Stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.
Casper, WY
Stop on Garden Creek Road, near the Rotary Park entrance, put the car in neutral, and it appears to roll uphill. The slope is an illusion — the surrounding land hides the true horizon, so a gentle descent reads as a climb — which has never once stopped anyone trying it with a bottle of water. A public road, so pull over sensibly and watch for traffic.
Douglas, WY
Douglas embraces its claim as the jackalope's hometown with a large horned-rabbit statue and town-square tribute to the invented creature.
Johnson County, WY
A steep trail descends toward a cave long associated with Butch Cassidy and Wild Bunch outlaw lore in the Middle Fork Powder River country.
Hotels, theatres, prisons and back roads with a reputation.
Cheyenne, WY
A landmark 1911 downtown hotel with long-running local ghost legends attached to its rooms, halls and early-20th-century history.
Cody, WY
Buffalo Bill Cody's 1902 hotel retains its ornate cherrywood bar and is the subject of recurring reports of unexplained activity.
Buffalo, WY
The restored 1880s hotel and saloon preserves Old West interiors and is frequently associated with reported ghost stories, including a child spirit.
Sheridan, WY
The 1893 hotel is associated with Buffalo Bill Cody and with the frequently retold ghost story of longtime employee Miss Kate Arnold.
Green River, WY
This working public library is repeatedly featured in local paranormal lore involving apparitions, voices and unexplained movement after hours.
Medicine Bow, WY
A 1911 hotel tied to Owen Wister's 'The Virginian' remains a functioning lodging property with a reputation for reported hauntings.
Sighting sites, crash lore and the towns that kept the file open.
Green River, WY
The municipal airfield gained the tongue-in-cheek 'Intergalactic Spaceport' designation as a refuge for potential stranded extraterrestrials.
Real events too strange to have made the textbook.
Atlantic City, WY
A tiny surviving mining settlement where modern residents, old structures and surrounding gold-rush remnants overlap.
Farson, WY
A highway turnout marks the public-accessible Fort Bridger route crossing of the Big Sandy used by multiple national historic trails.
South Pass City, WY
The restored gold mine above South Pass City preserves hoisting, milling and mining infrastructure from the district's boom years.
Fremont County, WY
Wind-carved sandstone 'castles' surround protected Native American petroglyph panels at this remote BLM site.
Sweetwater County, WY
A remote BLM rock-art site with historic-era petroglyphs reached by rough backcountry roads; high clearance is recommended.
Cody, WY
A largely dormant thermal area whose early reports by John Colter helped fuel frontier stories about a strange 'hell' of steam and hot water.
Small, specific collections run by people who care far too much.
Gillette, WY
The museum grew around Gillette's literal landmark rockpile and now combines regional history with outdoor rail, ranch and industrial exhibits.
Rawlins, WY
Local-history collections include artifacts connected to outlaw Big Nose George Parrott, whose corpse became part of one of Wyoming's most macabre stories.
Cody, WY
The collection centers on corroded, broken and excavated firearms recovered from battlefields, settlements, ranches and archaeological contexts.
Encampment, WY
The museum's preserved two-story outhouse was designed so the upper level could remain usable when winter snow buried the lower entrance.
Powell, WY
The museum and surviving structures interpret the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Heart Mountain confinement site.
Greybull, WY
An outdoor aircraft collection at a former air-tanker base preserves large firefighting planes and unusual aviation equipment.
Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A remarkably deep blue hot spring in West Thumb Geyser Basin whose apparent depth gives it an almost bottomless look.
Sweetwater County, WY
Remote badlands contain bizarre erosional forms, abundant Eocene fossils and dense archaeological resources spanning roughly 12,000 years.
Aladdin, WY
An operating 1896 mercantile retains original woodwork, cabinetry, bins and an antique-filled upper floor in one of Wyoming's tiniest communities.
Albany County, WY
A 60-foot granite pyramid stands alone near the former highest point of the original transcontinental railroad route.
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A hillside thermal area of pastel mud pots, steaming vents and hot springs reached by a short trail and boardwalk.
Converse County, WY
LaPrele Creek passes beneath a naturally eroded rock arch in a small county park hidden below the surrounding plains.
