This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

This distinctive snowfield on the slopes of a Colorado fourteener has several legendary origin stories.

The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.

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

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A picturesque (all-natural!) beach in a landlocked state.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

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

The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.

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.

A pair of gargoyles peer into unsuspecting passengers at Denver’s conspiracy-packed airport.

This stunning, technicolor array of geysers has occupied Ferril lake since 1908.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

This 28-foot-tall milk can contains one of the most whimsical ice cream parlors in town.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

A mural and a few historical markers commemorate Denver's once-thriving Chinatown, which was obliterated in a racist riot.

In a small Japanese garden off a busy Denver street, a memorial to a brave, principled politician.

This was once the home of Gahan's Saloon, Denver's most storied speakeasy.

A focal point of in Denver’s skyline for over a century, inspired by a Venetian basilica.

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.