Places nealpwright Wants to Go

A short tunnel built straight through a magmatic dike.

A long and winding trail through history led to the current iteration of this mountaintop tower.

This Rocky Mountain mansion was the luxurious home of the authoritarian leader of a company town.

An environmental art installation inspired by farmhouses and crop circles.

This shrine is an ode to the region's rich Hispanic heritage.

After being lost for nearly a century, this historic bell finally returned home after its mysterious theft.

This stone marker honors the man who released Canada goose goslings in Fort Collins, Colorado.

This historic stone barn is the former home of legendary cattleman Charles “Lonesome Dove” Goodnight.

This fully restored synagogue explores the American Jewish experience along the old frontier.

At this multicultural hub, refugee chefs serve the foods they miss most from home.

The temporary burial site of the man who shot and killed Jesse James.

This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.

Colorado's oldest church is now home to the largest handmade adobe labyrinth in the world.

This statue of an obscure comic strip hero stands as a tribute to patriotic service and a cautionary tale about embracing fads.

For over a century, it has been a tradition to raise a flag at the top of this 450-foot sandstone pillar on the 4th of July.

Experience life in one of America’s smallest neighborhoods.

Above Breckenridge, a destructive mining technique sits sunken in a small pond.

A surprising collection of bronze faces beneath a bridge in Loveland.

On the edge of grassland in northeastern Colorado, these rock formations are some of the few remnants of a high plain that has eroded away over millions of years.

One of three remaining theatres in the United States created in the Art Deco Mayan Revival style.

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

A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.

A mural of the Virgin of Guadalupe painted on the rock wall by canyon's religious namesake.

A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.