Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

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

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

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

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

This iconic science fiction house still looks like something from the future.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

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

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

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

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

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

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