Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.

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

The world's largest washing machine collection has more than 1,400 antique items in its exhibit.

Antique automobiles, phonographs, organs, and farm equipment.

The site of a defunct mill, that once supplied marble for the construction of the Lincoln Memorial.

Historic, 19th-century wagon wheel ruts cut into soft volcanic ash.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

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

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

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.

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

An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

One of few remaining antique carousels with stationary animals in the U.S.

This three-mile concrete levee in Pueblo, Colorado was transformed into the world’s longest painting.

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

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

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.

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.

Each year, teams of the world's best snow sculptors have 65 hours to create frozen masterpieces.

16,500-acre ranch filled with American heritage, geological wonders, and a giant pile of tires is the crown jewel of an intriguing tug-of-war.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

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