A remote sandstone plateau named for a legendary cattle rustler.

A mural of the Virgin of Guadalupe painted on the rock wall by canyon's religious namesake.

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

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.

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.

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

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

A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.

This three-mile concrete levee in Pueblo, Colorado was transformed into the world’s longest painting.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

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

Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.

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

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

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

Happen to come across a dead eagle? Send it to America's official dead eagle warehouse.

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

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

Antique automobiles, phonographs, organs, and farm equipment.

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

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

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

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