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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.
Bishop Castle
Rye, Colorado
One man's massive-obsessive labor of neo-medieval fantasy construction. Jim Bishop passed away Nov. 21, 2024.
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 Colorado's gas chamber, murder weapons, and much grim memorabilia. Set inside a former part of a prison, with the rest of the prison next door.
International Cryonics Museum
Estes Park, Colorado
Centerpiece tank contains cryogenically preserved "Grandpa" Bredo Morstol, world-famous Frozen Dead Guy since first iced in 1989, moved here in 2023.
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.
Sasquatch Outpost
Bailey, Colorado
Former general store, now a Bigfoot museum created by Jim Myers, charting sightings. displaying unique cryptid artifacts.
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.
National Ballpark Museum
Denver, Colorado
About baseball, but also about ballparks -- the sport's 14 century-old "classics." Stadium seats, bricks, turnstiles, light fixtures, etc.
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.