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

A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

This Colorado fire station has been in continuous operation for more than a century.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

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.

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

The hallowed ground of one of the worst atrocities in United States history.

Snapshots of late 19th and early 20th century Americana, focused on life on the plains, are displayed in this museum.

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

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

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.

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

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

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

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

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

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.

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

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