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Dragon Man's Military Museum
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorful character Mel "Dragon Man" Bernstein owns shooting range, gun store, and vast private military museum with rarities you won't see anywhere else.
Cano's Castle: Beer Can Folk Art
Antonito, Colorado
Outsider artist Cano's visions have yielded a glittery metal junk castle and other novel folk constructions in a small town.
Museum of Colorado Prisons
Canon City, Colorado
Features a real gas chamber, cell dioramas, and artifacts of penal life.
The UFO Watchtower
Hooper, Colorado
Alien spacecraft whiz over this mountain valley often enough that livestock rancher Judy Messoline built a UFO observation platform.
Casa Bonita
Lakewood, Colorado
Dine Mexican in a mine, or watch indoor cliff divers while serenaded by a mariachi band.
Colorado Gators Reptile Park
Mosca, Colorado
Claims to be the worlds only high-altitude alligator farm. Also a full-blown tourist attraction, and it offers classes in gator wresting.
Bishop Castle
Rye, Colorado
One man's massive-obsessive labor of medieval fantasy construction. May it never end.
Herkimer: World's Largest Beetle
Colorado Springs, Colorado
A big Hercules beetle nicknamed "Herkimer" draws traffic to a museum of bugs. Built in 1949; restored in 2022.
May Natural History Museum of the Tropics
Colorado Springs, Colorado
A huge collection of rare beetles, deadly spiders, wily phasmids from the bug-infested places of the world.
Buckhorn Exchange Restaurant - 500 Stuffed Animals
Denver, Colorado
The Buckhorn Exchange has been serving up fleshy chow under the marble-eyed gaze of its mounted kill since 1893.
Sleeping Giant in a Sombrero
Denver, Colorado
Bear Creek Park's old sombrero slide has been accessorized into a new, giant, sleeping, half-buried cowboy.
International Church of Cannabis
Denver, Colorado
Opened in a century-old real church in 2017, the Church of Cannabis dazzles devotees and tourists alike with mesmerizing artwork.
Monument to Prunes and Shorty the Burros
Fairplay, Colorado
Prunes and Shorty were beloved burros, studies in contrast in life as they now are in death.
Mike the Headless Chicken
Fruita, Colorado
Live chicken decapitated -- but he lived! For a bit. Town celebrates his enduring story with a sculpture and festival.
America's Favorite Cannibal Town
Lake City, Colorado
Alferd Packer ate five people during a bad winter in 1874. Lake City wanted to hang him back then, but now accepts Alferd as America's most celebrated cannibal.
Petrified Wood Gas Station
Lamar, Colorado
The gas station made from eclectic stone in 1932 was a gas station, a tire business, then a used car dealership.
Bronze Bicycle Trash Collector
Louisville, Colorado
John Breaux would ride around town on his bike, picking up trash. That's what he was doing when he was hit by a car. The town raised money to erect a statue in his honor.
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- Antonito: Cano's Castle: Beer Can Folk Art
- Bailey: Sasquatch Outpost [tips]
- Breckenridge: Isak Heartstone: 15-Foot-Tall Troll [tips]
- Canon City: Museum of Colorado Prisons
- Canon City: America's Highest Suspension Bridge [tips]
- Cascade: Santa's Workshop - North Pole [tips]
- Colorado Springs: Dine in a Plane [tips]
- Colorado Springs: Herkimer: World's Largest Beetle
- Colorado Springs: Focus on the Family HQ [tips]
- Colorado Springs: Garden of the Gods [tips]
- Colorado Springs: Dragon Man's Military Museum
- Colorado Springs: May Natural History Museum of the Tropics
- Colorado Springs: Muffler Man: Saloon Cowboy [tips]
- Cortez: Creations from Mufflers [tips]
- Creede: Largest Fork in the U.S. [tips]
- Cripple Creek: Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine Tour [tips]
- Denver: Buckhorn Exchange Restaurant - 500 Stuffed Animals
- Denver: Convergence Station [tips]
- Denver: 20-Foot-Tall Concrete Cowboy [tips]
- Denver: Big Sweep - Dust Pan and Broom Sculpture [tips]
- Denver: Forney Transportation Museum: Amelia Earhart's Car [tips]
- Denver: Sleeping Giant in a Sombrero
- Denver: Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum [tips]
- Denver: 20-Foot-Tall Dog Made of Dog Tags [tips]
- Denver: Downtown Aquarium: Mermaids
- Denver: Tour a Candy Factory [tips]
- Denver: International Church of Cannabis
- Eaton: Lee Maxwell Washing Machine Museum [tips]
- Estes Park: The Shining Hotel - TV Miniseries [tips]
- Fairplay: Monument to Prunes and Shorty the Burros
- Fort Carson: 4th Infantry Division Museum [tips]
- Fort Collins: Giant Ice Cream Churn [tips]
- Fruita: Mike the Headless Chicken
- Fruita: Traffic Circle Dinosaur [tips]
- Golden: Buffalo Bill's Grave and Museum [tips]
- Grand Junction: Outlaw Suicide Gun, Replica Uranium Mine
- Greeley: Muffler Man [tips]
- Hooper: The UFO Watchtower
- Idaho Springs: Tour a Gold Mine [tips]
- Lake City: America's Favorite Cannibal Town
- Lakewood: Casa Bonita
- Lakewood: Estes Motel: 1950 Mini-Town
- Lamar: Petrified Wood Gas Station
- Longmont: Muffler Man [tips]
- Longmont: Join Teddy Roosevelt on his Train Platform [tips]
- Louisville: Bronze Bicycle Trash Collector
- Mancos: Giant Arrows
- Mancos: Sculptures of Dave Sipe [tips]
- Manitou Springs: Manitou Cliff Dwellings
- Manitou Springs: Balanced Rock [tips]
- Monte Vista: Movie Manor Motor Inn
- Montrose: The Hangin' Tree [tips]
- Montrose: Museum of the Mountain West [tips]
- Morrison: Tiny Town [tips]
- Morrison: John Denver Earth Hero Statue [tips]
- Mosca: Colorado Gators Reptile Park
- Mount Evans: Highest Paved Road in the USA [tips]
- Nathrop: Ghost Town with Chipmunks [tips]
- North Mosca: Highest Sand Dunes in North America [tips]
- Northglenn: Flag Sprouting Soldiers - Veterans Memorial [tips]
- Ouray: Stuffed Bear, Feejee Mermaid [tips]
- Palmer Lake: Dizzy, Light Bulb Carrying Dog [tips]
- Pueblo: Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum [tips]
- Rye: Bishop Castle
- Salida: Famous Fur-Bearing Trout
- South Fork: Biggin The Lumberjack [tips]
- Sterling: Statue of the Popcorn Man [tips]
- Trinidad: Canary in a Coal Mine Memorial [tips]