Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

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

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.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

It's easy to forget what century it is as you wander this rustic homestead.

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

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

Toss a Frisbee through the ruins of this Colorado gold mining town.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.