Carbondale, Colorado
Redstone Coke Ovens
Once owned by the largest employer in Colorado, these ovens have been abandoned for over a century.
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Carbondale, Colorado
Once owned by the largest employer in Colorado, these ovens have been abandoned for over a century.
Rifle, Colorado
You might want to bring a rain jacket to this travertine triple waterfall.
Florissant, Colorado
The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.
Victor, Colorado
A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.
Cripple Creek, Colorado
Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.
Penrose, Colorado
The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.
Cañon City, Colorado
The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.
Cañon City, Colorado
The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.
Cañon City, Colorado
This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Monticello, Utah
Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.
Monticello, Utah
This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.
Calhan, Colorado
Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.
Monticello, Utah
One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.
Thompson Springs, Utah
Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.
Moab, Utah
This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.
Moab, Utah
This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.
Leadville, Colorado
This fully restored synagogue explores the American Jewish experience along the old frontier.
Leadville, Colorado
This 19th-century house museum features a horse-drawn hearse and other antique oddities.
Leadville, Colorado
Thousands of unmarked, sunken graves in a pauper's cemetery.
Leadville, Colorado
In the 1950s, two women saved this grand theater in the Colorado mountains from demolition.
Leadville, Colorado
This notorious dive has been serving up both kinds of spirits since 1879.
Alexandria, Virginia
This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.