Places Chelgoroth Wants to Go

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

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

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

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

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

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.