Places KayteeLouise Wants to Go

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

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

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

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

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

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

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

The site of a defunct mill, that once supplied marble for the construction of the Lincoln Memorial.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

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

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

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

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 dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

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

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.