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This restored farmhouse is a time capsule of a 19th-century Colorado homestead.

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

The site of a minor battle might have been forgotten if not for one participant’s famous family and the death of a respected warrior.

This memorial pays homage to Pueblo's four Medal of Honor recipients.

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

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

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

In a dry, neglected cemetery lies the unassuming grave of a soldier vilified in life but celebrated in death.

A tiny nondenominational church harkens back to the days of the first homesteaders in the region.

Historic, 19th-century wagon wheel ruts cut into soft volcanic ash.

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.

Antique automobiles, phonographs, organs, and farm equipment.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

A prehistoric rock shelter that's literally in someone's backyard.

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

Hidden high on a remote mountain peak is a humbling and mysterious Vietnam War memorial.

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.

Victorian "Fancy Craft" Hair Wreaths and Relics.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

Toss a Frisbee through the ruins of this Colorado gold mining town.

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

The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.