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

A remote sandstone plateau named for a legendary cattle rustler.

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

A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.

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

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

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

This 19th-century ranch is being transformed into a residential library with thousands of books about the natural world.

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

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

Antique automobiles, phonographs, organs, and farm equipment.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

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

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

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

The remains of an early 1900s dude ranch that operated until the 1970s.

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

This eclectic collection documents the wild legacies of "America's Wickedest Street."

Victorian "Fancy Craft" Hair Wreaths and Relics.

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

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

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