Places nils Wants to Go

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

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

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

Metal water storage tank turned ethereal concert hall.

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

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

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.

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

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

A remote sandstone plateau named for a legendary cattle rustler.

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

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

A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.

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

This high-desert oasis spotlights some of Colorado’s most sacred native plants.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

The vanishing remains of an old water station from the late 19th century.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.