Places IJAdventures Wants to Go

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.

Check out a hidden collection of vintage neon signs.

Antique automobiles, phonographs, organs, and farm equipment.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

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

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.

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

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

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

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

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

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

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

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

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

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

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

This marker identifies the location where three states converge.

The world's largest sticker ball weighs in at a mighty 231 pounds.