U.S. 285 and Turkey Creek Rd., near Morrison, Colorado (about 20 miles southwest of Denver), 303/697-6829, www.tinytownrailroad.com

There was never a King Kong in the Old West movie, but if there ever is, Tiny Town would make a solid location. The owner of a moving company, George Turner built a 1/6 scale model of a Western town for his daughter in 1915 and opened it to the public in 1920. Ravaged by the elements, Tiny Town was on the verge of becoming Tiny Ghetto in the 1980s and a local group formed to fix it up (including the miniature railroad), maintain it, and build more tiny structures, including several storefront-lined city blocks, a Dr. Seuss-style house, and a 1/6-scale Coney Island, a tribute to the real thing in Bailey .

On the Arkansas River Levee, Pueblo, Colorado

The levee holding back the Arkansas River for over three miles as it passes through Pueblo is a concrete canvas for what the Guinness folks have certified as the world’s longest painting. What began as oddball paintings by the anonymous and nocturnal Tee Hee Artists in the late 1970s soon became legitimized by a community-approved organization that upped the artistic ante. Since then, scores of local artists have slowly covered two miles (and counting) of continuous levee with vibrant artwork depicting everything from pro-recycling logos to Aztec history to Elvis Presley.

At the Forney Museum of Transportation, 4303 Brighton Blvd., Denver, Colorado, 303/297-1113, www.forneymusuem.org

After starting with stickers from his son’s sports teams a decade ago, Al Pallone gradually enveloped his 1975 Pontiac Grandview in adhesive propaganda for heavy metal bands, cartoon characters, and pretty much everything else. After ZaBeast accumulated 5,000 stickers—not to mention the action figures populating the hood and dash and the fake gorilla mitts hanging from the trunk—the service life of Colorado’s first art car ended in 1997 when the engine blew. Pallone donated it to the Forney Museum of Transportation where it has been on display ever since, alongside Amelia Earhart’s “Gold Bug” and the Porsche from Risky Business.