Here are some sites to see in Denver:
- Forney Museum of Transportation (cool old cars)
- Black American West Museum (Denver’s Five Points neighborhood used to be known as the Harlem of the West)
- Denver Art Museum (it looks like a boat)
- Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art (decorative modern art)
- Museum of Nature and Science (dinosaur skeletons)
- Denver Zoo (actual dinosaurs)
- Denver Botanical Gardens (zoo for plants)
- Tattered Cover Bookstore (everyone’s favorite)
- WaterCourse foods (vegetarian! vegan smoothies! even omnivores approve)
- 16th Street Mall (kitschy tourist shopping)
- Denver Mint (we make money)
- Denver Aquarium (for people who live nowhere near an ocean)
- Elitch Gardens (roller coasters)
- Water World (roller coasters with water)
If there’s a type of touristing you like to do, Friends at the Local Arrangements table can probably think of a place in Denver where you can do it.


