An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

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

"All Mountains - All The Time."

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

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

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

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

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

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

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.