In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A roadside attraction filled with an astounding array of gloriously wacky vehicles.

A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

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

A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

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

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

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.