Places kgamblin Wants to Go

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

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

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

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.

The childhood home of Henry Jones Jr. is now an adventure-themed bed and breakfast.

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.

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

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

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

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

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.