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Online Feature: Long way down

Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park’s newest ride—the Haunted Mine Drop—sends you 110 feet to the bottom of a mine haunted by a century-old victim of greed, and is the first dark-ride underground drop in the world.

Online Feature: Scandinavian ‘Celebrities’

According to legend, merciless warriors known as Vikings plundered and pillaged a wide swath of trans-Atlantic territory—from Turkey to present-day Newfoundland—voyaging aboard sturdy, lightweight ships, and sailing under a square sail of woven wool that became a terrifying symbol of impending doom...

Online Feature: Volcano Rising

Rising 200 feet above Florida’s tropical landscape is Krakatau, but magma didn’t form this volcano. Universal Orlando Resort built it as the centerpiece of a new 30-acre waterpark opening in early summer.

History buffs will recall that Krakatau is the name of a volcano that erupted in August...

Online Feature: Throwback charm

The Brown Palace is celebrating its 125th anniversary. Experience its Holiday Tea, or its charming history and tales of Christmases past on a private tour. Either way, you're sure to make some wonderful memories.

Online Feature: Lost and found

Explore the new Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science that displays the oldest known biblical documents ever discovered.

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Online Feature: Dingerland

Scrape the ground along Colorado’s Front Range and, chances are, you’ll find a dinosaur fossil. It happens often enough, from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs and east to Limon, that it’s hardly news anymore. Except when it is.

In August and September 2017, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science...

Online Feature: Hero worship

Explore History Colorado Center’s first-ever public exhibit of baseball memorabilia, collected by former Denver attorney Marshall Fogel, and discover the human side of some of baseball's greatest players.

Online Feature: ‘More magical by night’

The Oscar-winning 2009 film Avatar is the highest grossing movie in history (unadjusted for inflation), and its director says he’s written four sequels, though no release dates have been set. Director James Cameron likens the long-delayed Avatar 2 to the 16-year construction of the Three Gorges Dam...

Online Feature: How the West Was Scripted

Two downtown Denver museums host exhibits that look at Western legends—and some untold stories, too—from different but complimentary perspectives.