Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

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.

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

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