The final resting spot of the Colorado Transportation Department's beloved unofficial mascot.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

The clock that sets them all.

A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

What do a giraffe, an elephant, and reasonably priced steaks have in common? This roadside restaurant filled with exotic taxidermy.

A monument at the site of the Towner School Bus Tragedy, which lead to changes in school bus safety.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

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.

Storage units with a wartime past.

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

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.

A focal point of in Denver’s skyline for over a century, inspired by a Venetian basilica.

This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

An innovative local park built from an abandoned sewage treatment plant.

The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.

In a dry, neglected cemetery lies the unassuming grave of a soldier vilified in life but celebrated in death.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

This was once the home of Gahan's Saloon, Denver's most storied speakeasy.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.