9 Cool and Unusual Things to Do in Colorado Springs - Atlas Obscura

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Garden of the Gods

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Cheyenne Mountain Nuclear Bunker

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Old Gold Camp Road Tunnels

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Starr Kempf's Kinetic Sculptures

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Tuberculosis Huts

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

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Colorado's Airplane Restaurant

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

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Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun

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

Colorado Springs, Colorado

May Natural History Museum

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

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The Slopper

It's part cheeseburger, part enchilada, and smothered in a Pueblo, Colorado, specialty.

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Dinos and Dunes in the Colorado Desert

Venture with us into the Colorado desert to unearth the mysteries of the prehistoric beasts that once roamed this very same ground.

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<em>Kummakivi</em> (Finnish for "strange rock") was deposited by a glacier.

Why Scientists Fall for Precariously Balanced Rocks

“They’re nature’s hilarious accidents."

by Sabrina Imbler

January 9, 2020