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A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

A prehistoric rock shelter that's literally in someone's backyard.

A seven-story 1920s mausoleum outside Denver houses thousands of remains.

Victorian "Fancy Craft" Hair Wreaths and Relics.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

Toss a Frisbee through the ruins of this Colorado gold mining town.

A roadside attraction filled with an astounding array of gloriously wacky vehicles.

A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

16,500-acre ranch filled with American heritage, geological wonders, and a giant pile of tires is the crown jewel of an intriguing tug-of-war.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

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

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.