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

A seven-story 1920s mausoleum outside Denver houses thousands of remains.

A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.

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

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

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

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

Final resting place of a 19th century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

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

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

Metal water storage tank turned ethereal concert hall.

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

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

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

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

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

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

“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.

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

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.