Places arieadil Wants to Go

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

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

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

The remnants of a 1970 plane crash remain high in the Rocky Mountains.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

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

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

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

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

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

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

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

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.