Places nealpwright Wants to Go

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

A tiny town’s tiny museum with some gigantic residents.

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.

The final resting spot of the Colorado Transportation Department's beloved unofficial mascot.

A remote sandstone plateau named for a legendary cattle rustler.

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

The remnants of a 1970 plane crash remain high in the Rocky Mountains.

This 19th-century ranch is being transformed into a residential library with thousands of books about the natural world.

An artist-run shop filled with art inspired by and made from nature.

This drive-by, rotating mini-gallery is nestled in the suburbs of Colorado.

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

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

A memorial dedicated to the victims of the Columbine High School shootings.

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

This depiction of the earth mother welcomes new life into Aurora Highlands.

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

Take a self-guided tour through one of Colorado's most elevated mining districts.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

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

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.

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

The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.

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