An unexpected alley with light shows and nature views.

In the 1950s, two women saved this grand theater in the Colorado mountains from demolition.

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

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

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

Above Breckenridge, a destructive mining technique sits sunken in a small pond.

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

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

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

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

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.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

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

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

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

In a small Japanese garden off a busy Denver street, a memorial to a brave, principled politician.