Places happygrim Wants to Go

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

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

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

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

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

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

Victorian "Fancy Craft" Hair Wreaths and Relics.

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

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

Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.

This statue of an obscure comic strip hero stands as a tribute to patriotic service and a cautionary tale about embracing fads.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

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

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

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

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.

At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.