Places sarahltait Wants to Go

This Nebraska museum was once the smallest courthouse in America.

Population: 1.

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

Colorado’s second largest natural lake was created by a landslide.

A fascinating collection of art made from petrified wood and fossils by two octogenarian twin brothers.

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

The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.

These towering cliffs crystalize each winter, forming sheer walls of ice that are open for climbing.

A short tunnel built straight through a magmatic dike.

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

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

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

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

Meet cowboys and ancient beardogs at this one-of-a-kind crossroads of Western history.

The worst road in Colorado is the main gateway to some of its highest peaks.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

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

The hallowed ground of one of the worst atrocities in United States history.

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

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

A mural of the Virgin of Guadalupe painted on the rock wall by canyon's religious namesake.

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.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.