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

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

A prehistoric rock shelter that's literally in someone's backyard.

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

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

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

This 19th-century ranch is being transformed into a residential library with thousands of books about the natural world.

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

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

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

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

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

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

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

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

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

The remains of an early 1900s dude ranch that operated until the 1970s.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.