Places abbylynn Wants to Go

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

Explore some of the most unique vehicles in history along with a cast of unsettling mannequins.

Travel through the wholesome amusements of yesteryear at this charming miniature village.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

The world's largest key collection features keys to the White House, Frankenstein's castle, and Hitler's bunker.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.