Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico
Wheeler Peak
This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his moniker to peaks.
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Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico
This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his moniker to peaks.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Telluride, Colorado
This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.
Trinidad, Colorado
The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.
Creede, Colorado
A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.
Alamosa, Colorado
When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.
Center, Colorado
One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.
Rye, Colorado
The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.
Florence, Colorado
This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.
Cañon City, Colorado
This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.
Cañon City, Colorado
This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.
Cañon City, Colorado
The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.
Aspen, Colorado
“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Aspen, Colorado
An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.
Cripple Creek, Colorado
This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.
Leadville, Colorado
An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.
Leadville, Colorado
Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Victorian "Fancy Craft" Hair Wreaths and Relics.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.