Places mpyoungster Wants to Go

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

An urban laboratory.

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

In the 1950s, two women saved this grand theater in the Colorado mountains from demolition.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

A roadside attraction filled with an astounding array of gloriously wacky vehicles.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.

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

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

Explore some of the most unique vehicles in history along with a cast of unsettling mannequins.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

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

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

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

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.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

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

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