Durango, Colorado: Lincoln Deathbed Hair and Moon Heartbeat (Gone)

This attraction closed two years ago, give or take. It is now the Durango Furniture Store.

Rusty Crossland has spent over three decades collecting interesting historical artifacts, which can be viewed at the R. H. Crossland Foundation Historical Museum, which is named for Rusty's father. There are amazing things in this museum. A very old baseball (small, purple and looks like a beet), the "most-documented fragment hair from Abraham Lincolns death bed," and a requisition book from the 1850s that West Point superintendent Robert E. Lee had to sign (or initial) when new socks or underwear were needed for the cadets.

My favorite is the actual EKG recording of Neil Armstrong's heartbeat as he took humankind's first step on the Moon. Rusty told me that a cardiologist looked at the recording and determined that it was "150 beats per minute."