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The UFO Watchtower
Hooper, Colorado
Alien spacecraft whiz over this mountain valley often enough that livestock rancher Judy Messoline built a UFO observation platform.

Sights for Oddball Excursions

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.
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.
Art Cartopia
Trinidad, Colorado
Bills itself as, "The greatest art car museum on Earth." Zany outgrowth of the town's annual art car parade.
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.