Up-close opportunities to see working birds of prey.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

The most easily accessible intact vertical mine shaft structure remaining in the Red Mountain Mining District.

The oldest producer of embroidered Western wear.

Thousands of unmarked, sunken graves in a pauper's cemetery.

This high-desert oasis spotlights some of Colorado’s most sacred native plants.

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

Historic, 19th-century wagon wheel ruts cut into soft volcanic ash.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

One of the oldest art supply stores in the United States.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

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

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

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

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

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

The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.

This sidewalk tribute honors Colorado's great culinary creation.

A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.

The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.

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