3 Best Sights in Summit County, Colorado

Dedicated to the 19th-century miner turned environmentalist who helped create Denver's Museum of Nature and Science, this museum hosts realistic stuffed animals and interactive exhibits like the hands-on taxidermy workbench.

This museum paints a vivid portrait of life in Leadville at the turn of the last century, with dioramas depicting life in the mines. There's also furniture, clothing, and toys from the Victorian era.

This museum covers virtually every aspect of mining, from the discovery of precious ore to fashioning it into coins and other items. Dioramas in the beautiful brick building explain extraction processes.