Places Erin McKay Wants to Go

See 150 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and bones dating back to the Jurassic period.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

Hike to the decaying remains of a dream house with a spectacular view.

The final resting place of a legendary science fiction author and his fraternal twin sister who died as an infant.

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

Winter and summer solstice aligned sculpture in the middle of nowhere.

See six states from the newly restored 100-year-old historic roadside attraction.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

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

Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.

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

A tiny town’s tiny museum with some gigantic residents.

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

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

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

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

This 28-foot-tall milk can contains one of the most whimsical ice cream parlors in town.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

This depiction of the earth mother welcomes new life into Aurora Highlands.

One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.

One of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the U.S. is an open-air museum of Art Deco and neon lights.

The warmth and creative kitsch of a quilt engulf every patron who visits.

An artist-run shop filled with art inspired by and made from nature.