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

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

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

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

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

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

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

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

A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.

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

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

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.

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

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

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

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

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

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.