Denver, Colorado
"The Yearling"
A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.
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Denver, Colorado
A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.
Rye, Colorado
The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.
CaƱon City, Colorado
The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.
Estes Park, Colorado
Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."
Calhan, Colorado
Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.
Pueblo, Colorado
This memorial pays homage to Pueblo's four Medal of Honor recipients.
Gateway, Colorado
A remote sandstone plateau named for a legendary cattle rustler.
Fairplay, Colorado
This 19th-century ranch is being transformed into a residential library with thousands of books about the natural world.
Leadville, Colorado
An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.
Bailey, Colorado
A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.
Gateway, Colorado
Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.
CaƱon City, Colorado
The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.
Leadville, Colorado
At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.