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

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

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

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.

A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

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

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

One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.

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

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

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

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

This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, never been to New York.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

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

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.