These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

Above Breckenridge, a destructive mining technique sits sunken in a small pond.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.

A remote sandstone plateau named for a legendary cattle rustler.

This massive home was constructed by one of the greatest conservationists in Colorado history.

The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.

A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.

An ADA-accessible trail and deck offering stunning views of Colorado’s Mount of the Holy Cross.

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

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

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.

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

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

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

16,500-acre ranch filled with American heritage, geological wonders, and a giant pile of tires is the crown jewel of an intriguing tug-of-war.

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

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

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

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.