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Casa Bonita: He Dove To Forget
Lakewood - Since it opened in 1974, Casa Bonita in Lakeland, Colorado, has entertained its fajita-eating patrons with indoor cliff divers. Full story
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Featured Attractions
Colorado Gators Reptile Park
Mosca, Colorado
The only high-altitude alligator farm started as a fish farm, and the gators were convenient garbage disposals.
May Natural History Museum of the Tropics
Colorado Springs, Colorado
May family's huge collection of exotic insects -- rare beetles, deadly spiders, wily phasmids -- from the jungles and remote reaches of the world.
Casa Bonita
Lakewood, Colorado
Dine in a mine, or watch indoor cliff divers while seranaded by a mariachi band.
Cano's Castle - Beer Can Folk Art
Antonito, Colorado
Folk architect Cano tells us about the inpiration for his junk towers.
UFO Watchtower
Hooper, Colorado
Cattle rancher Judy Messoline built a UFO Watchtower so that everyone could better see what flies over her land.
Dragon Man's Military Museum
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Mel "Dragon Man" Bernstein owns a vast private military museum with rarities you won't see anywhere else. And if you have a clean record, he can sell you a machine gun!
Swetsville Zoo
Fort Collins - Timnath, Colorado
Meet Bill Swets, the zookeeper of a humorous metal menagerie.
The Wonder Tower
Genoa, Colorado
Observation tower, museum and souvenir shop with pickled freaks and picturesque vistas.
Petrified Wood Gas Station
Lamar, Colorado
A gas station turned used car dealership made of petrified wood.
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Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Antonito: Cano's Castle - Beer Can Folk Art
- Bailey: Giant Hot Dog [tips]
- Beulah: Bishop Castle
- Boulder: Cannibal Cafeteria
- Broomfield: Shep, Toll Road Dog
- Canon City: Prison Museum
- Canon City: Live Hangings
- Colorado Springs: Dragon Man's Military Museum
- Colorado Springs: Magic Town
- Colorado Springs: Largest Hercules Beetle, May Museum of the Tropicsa>
- Cripple Creek: Brothel Sights [tips]
- Denver: Buckhorn Exchange
- Denver: Forney Transportation Museum [tips]
- Denver:"Why I Love Her" USA Map
- Eaton: Antique Washing Machine Museum [tips]
- Estes Park: 20,000 Keys [tips]
- Fairplay: Bum, Prunes and Shorty
- Fort Collins: Annie, the Railroad Dog
- Fort Collins: Swetsville Zoo
- Four Corners: Where Four States Meet
- Fruita: Mike the Headless Chicken
- Genoa: Wonder Tower | A visit.
- Golden: Coors Plant Tours [tips]
- Hooper: UFO Watchtower
- Idaho Springs: Steve Canyon Statue
- Lafayette: Vampire grave [tips]
- Lake City: Alferd Packer Massacre Site
- Lakewood: Casa Bonita
- Lamar: Petrified Wood Building
- Littleton: Grave of America's Favorite Cannibal
- Ludlow: Birthplace of Public Relations
- Mancos: Rain of Giant Arrows
- Manitou Springs: Manitou Cliff Dwellings
- Mosca: Colorado Gators Reptile Park
- Nederland: Grandpa Bredo on Ice [tips]
- North Pole: Where Santa Lives [tips]
- Strasburg: The Golden Spike Controversy
