3. Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave (Golden, Colorado) First off, it’s hard to beat the view from Lookout Mountain, where Wild West showman Buffalo Bill Cody and his wife are buried. We are expecting great things in the future from this museum, founded in 1921 by Johnny Baker, with a renovated timeline about Buffalo Bill’s life and a new building in the works. Yet what impressed us last year was a special exhibit, “Found in a Belgian Basement: Lakota Artifacts from the 1935 World’s Fair.â

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