Places 1just4looks Wants to Go

After retiring, Gary Pendergrass turned his yard into a wonderland of outsider art.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

A statue honoring Grand Junction local James Dalton Trumbo, writing from his favorite spot, his bathtub.

Plaque commemorating the location of a underground nuclear bomb test in the 1970s.

When a mechanical flaw rewrote aviation rules.

Unique fence hidden along multi-use trail near Pearl St and Mount Sanitas

In a beautiful open space on the north side of the Palmer Divide sits one solitary 19th-century gravestone in a copse of trees.

A little slice of 19th century France tucked away in the Colorado mountains.

Wildflower-filled 19th-century cemetery is a bucolic final resting place.

The most easily accessible intact vertical mine shaft structure remaining in the Red Mountain Mining District.

Explore Zimbabwean art in the heart of Colorado.

A marble cornerstone marks the location of what could have been a presidential palace.

A James Turrell Skyspace located in the mountains of Colorado.

This jet-infused peak marks the traditional northern boundary of the Navajo nation.

The former home of the "Manassa Mauler" is now a museum dedicated to his legendary boxing career.

Snapshots of late 19th and early 20th century Americana, focused on life on the plains, are displayed in this museum.

These murals from the 1920s beautifully depict America’s industrial age.

A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.