Places donnatalarico Wants to Go

A short but powerful waterfall resides amid Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes.

A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.

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

The temporary burial site of the man who shot and killed Jesse James.

This gallery is home to everything from antiques, to ancient tribal masks.

Take a self-guided tour through one of Colorado's most elevated mining districts.

Ute tour guides have been sharing the ancient dwellings and rock art inside this large park with visitors for more than 40 years.

A riverside tiny house with books and other treasures galore.

This dynamic entertainment venue brings a much-needed funkiness to the region with its bizarre art, eclectic films screenings, and peculiar performance pieces.

A memorial dedicated to the victims of the Columbine High School shootings.

The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

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

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

All that remains of this once-booming mining town are the ruins of a saloon.

"All Mountains - All The Time."

The home of a formerly enslaved man who went on to become a prospector, entrepreneur, and activist for Black rights.

Antique automobiles, phonographs, organs, and farm equipment.

A tiny nondenominational church harkens back to the days of the first homesteaders in the region.

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

This massive home was constructed by one of the greatest conservationists in Colorado history.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

This restored farmhouse is a time capsule of a 19th-century Colorado homestead.

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.