A memorial to the Potawatomi chief who allegedly ran nearly 150 miles to alert settlers of an impending attack.

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

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

The home of a formerly enslaved man who went on to become a prospector, entrepreneur, and activist for Black rights.

A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.

A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.

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

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

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

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

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

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

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

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

This statue of an obscure comic strip hero stands as a tribute to patriotic service and a cautionary tale about embracing fads.

This sidewalk tribute honors Colorado's great culinary creation.

A stark reminder of the huge nuclear weapons plant that once stood on the site and its effect on the surrounding area.

Happen to come across a dead eagle? Send it to America's official dead eagle warehouse.

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