Places lunarassault Wants to Go

The warmth and creative kitsch of a quilt engulf every patron who visits.

Once named the “world’s oldest gas station” due to its unusual construction material.

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

A Colorado store that specializes in all things spiritual, metaphysical, and witchy.

One of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the U.S. is an open-air museum of Art Deco and neon lights.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

Colorado's only active volcano last erupted around 4,000 years ago.

A short but powerful waterfall resides amid Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes.

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

All that remains of this once-booming mining town are the ruins of a saloon.

Check out a hidden collection of vintage neon signs.

See 150 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and bones dating back to the Jurassic period.

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

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

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

Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

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

This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, but has never been to New York.

A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.