Colorado Springs

World Figure Skating Museum & Hall of Fame

The International Skating Union keeps the sport's official world archive here, in a five-dollar museum next to a hotel.

Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center

A 1916 doughnut recipe tuned to the air pressure at 14,115 feet, and it genuinely does not work anywhere lower.

ProRodeo Hall of Fame and Museum of the American Cowboy

The official hall of fame of professional rodeo, and reportedly the only museum anywhere devoted to the sport alone.

U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum

A museum where the wheelchair route and the walking route are the same route, by design, in the city that runs the American team.

Edward C. Rochette Money Museum

A quarter of a million coins, notes, tokens and medals, in the largest museum in the country devoted entirely to money.

Pikes Peak Summit

A club has climbed Pikes Peak every New Year's Eve since 1922 to fire the midnight display from 14,115 feet.

Michael Garman Museum & Gallery

One sculptor spent 35 years building a 3,000 square foot city at one-sixth scale, with holograms and mirrors that change it while you look away.

Paint Mines Interpretive Park

Banded clay hoodoos in red, yellow and purple, quarried for pigment across nine thousand years, and free to walk through.

Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun

A 114-foot granite tower built in 1937 with no wood and no nails, holding the tomb of the man who built half the city's attractions.

Garden of the Gods Park

A family gave the city 480 acres of red sandstone in 1909, on the written condition that nobody ever be charged to walk in it.

Glen Eyrie

The man who founded Colorado Springs built himself a sixty-room Tudor castle in the foothills, and it still runs tours.

United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel

Seventeen aluminium spires over four separate places of worship, closed for restoration until 2028.