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Take a self-guided tour through one of Colorado's most elevated mining districts.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

All that remains of this once-booming mining town are the ruins of a saloon.

One of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the U.S. is an open-air museum of Art Deco and neon lights.

Antique automobiles, phonographs, organs, and farm equipment.

Hidden high on a remote mountain peak is a humbling and mysterious Vietnam War memorial.

Colorado's only active volcano last erupted around 4,000 years ago.

A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.

This dynamic entertainment venue brings a much-needed funkiness to the region with its bizarre art, eclectic films screenings, and peculiar performance pieces.

The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

This depiction of the earth mother welcomes new life into Aurora Highlands.

This Colorado fire station has been in continuous operation for more than a century.

This gallery is home to everything from antiques, to ancient tribal masks.

The site of a defunct mill, that once supplied marble for the construction of the Lincoln Memorial.

Check out a hidden collection of vintage neon signs.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

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

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

One of few remaining antique carousels with stationary animals in the U.S.

An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.