A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

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

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

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

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.

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.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

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

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

An artist-run shop filled with art inspired by and made from nature.

Take a self-guided tour through one of Colorado's most elevated mining districts.

Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

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

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

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

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

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.