Places happygrim Wants to Go

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

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

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

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

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

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

An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

This 19th-century ranch is being transformed into a residential library with thousands of books about the natural world.

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.

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.

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

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

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

A prehistoric rock shelter that's literally in someone's backyard.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

The final resting place of a 19th-century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

"All Mountains - All The Time."