“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

The world's largest key collection features keys to the White House, Frankenstein's castle, and Hitler's bunker.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

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

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

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

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.

Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

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

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

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

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

The final resting place of a 19th-century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

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

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

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

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