Places goodepeggy Wants to Go

This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, but has never been to New York.

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

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

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

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

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

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

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

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

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.

After Havre burned down, the best place to build was under the ashes.