Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Colorado

While in Colorado, you might enjoy a visit to:

Features a real gas chamber, cell dioramas, and artifacts of penal life.
~99 miles from Aspen.

The Madonna of the Trail is a pinkish, stony-faced pioneer Mom, in long skirt and bonnet, strutting westward with an infant in her arms.

The effect is that of a rain of massive Indian arrows.
~152 miles from Aspen.

Buckskin Joe's hangings are part of a Wild West show, acted out by semipro gunslingers and seasonally underemployed ski instructors.
~94 miles from Aspen.

Open the curtains. crank up the cheesy speaker, and watch a drive-in movie from the comfort of your motel room.
~116 miles from Aspen.

Roadside attraction map art with tourist snapshots covers maps on two corridor walls at Denver International Airport.
~124 miles from Aspen.

Celebrated decapitated chicken that lived -- for a while. The town has a sculpture of Mike, and Mike the Headless Chicken Days is an annual festival.
~102 miles from Aspen.

A life-size buffalo sculpture is made entirely of polished chrome car bumpers.
~94 miles from Aspen.

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