Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

Above Breckenridge, a destructive mining technique sits sunken in a small pond.

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

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.

This National Natural Landmark is one of the best examples of a “mass wasting” in the world.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.

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

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

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

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

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.