Places sheinsis Wants to Go

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

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

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

This massive home was constructed by one of the greatest conservationists in Colorado history.

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

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

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 now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

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

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.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

A seven-story 1920s mausoleum outside Denver houses thousands of remains.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

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

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

Neal Cassady may still have an open tab at one of Denver’s oldest watering holes.

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

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

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

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

A roadside attraction filled with an astounding array of gloriously wacky vehicles.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.