Places joyzbst Wants to Go

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

The trout that grew a winter coat is mounted in its Colorado hometown.

A pair of gargoyles peer into unsuspecting passengers at Denver’s conspiracy-packed airport.

The hallowed ground of one of the worst atrocities in United States history.

These towering cliffs crystalize each winter, forming sheer walls of ice that are open for climbing.

Fill up your senses in this beautiful riverside garden, dedicated to the works of singer-songwriter John Denver.

Explore a wealth of fossils in one of the most prolific dig sites in North America.

This vintage theme park is peak Christmas kitsch—and it's open all summer.

This Rocky Mountain mansion was the luxurious home of the authoritarian leader of a company town.

This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.

A tiny town’s tiny museum with some gigantic residents.

Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.

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

See 150 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and bones dating back to the Jurassic period.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.