Places Primo Wants to Go

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

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.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

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

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.

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

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

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

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

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

An homage to the pointers and retrievers that have long been a hunter's best friend.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.