Unusual museums in Colorado Springs

Looking for unusual museums & collections in Colorado Springs? These 6 are the genuinely strange ones — Cherokee Ranch & Castle, Winery at Holy Cross Abbey, Art in Isolation — Fremont Center for the Arts and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Colorado Springs they'd never find on their own.

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Cherokee Ranch & Castle A genuine 15th-century-style Scottish stone castle rising from the Colorado prairie, Cherokee Ranch & Castle… Sedalia
Winery at Holy Cross Abbey A Benedictine monastery winery that exists entirely because a monk attended an exorcism and got smitten with… Cañon City
Art in Isolation — Fremont Center for the Arts Every August, a quiet nonprofit on Main Street in Cañon City hangs — and sells — original artwork made inside… Cañon City
Michael Garman Museum - Magic Town A 3,000-square-foot handcrafted miniature city by artist Michael Garman, packed with 400+ sculpted figures, d… Old Colorado City
May Natural History Museum & Herkimer the Giant Beetle A 16-foot bronze Hercules beetle guards a retro 1950s roadside museum holding one of the world's largest priv… Rock Creek Canyon, Colorado Springs
Penny Arcade A working open-air arcade with 400+ coin-operated machines spanning more than a century — antique fortune tel… Manitou Springs