Denver Area Attractions

Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Ave. Pkwy. • Denver, CO 80204 • 303.640.4433
Known for its wide range of Native American art, this museum also contains the only major Asian art collection in the Rocky Mountains. Founded in 1893, this seven-story museum is wrapped by a thin 28-sided wall faced with one million sparkling tiles designed by Gio Ponti of Italy and James Sudler Associates of Denver. The seventh floor houses the museum's expanding collection of Western and regional works. Included are Charles Russell's painting In the Enemy's Country, Frederic Remington's bronze The Cheyenne, plus 19th-century photography and works by Georgia O'Keeffe.

U.S. Mint
320 W. Colfax Ave • Denver, CO 80204 • 303.405.4755 • 800.872.6468
There are four mints in the United States, but the Denver Mint is one of only two (the other is the Philadelphia Mint) where we can actually see the process of turning lumps of metal into shiny coins. The Denver location is responsible for producing all coins for public circulation. The Denver Mint stamps billions of coins each year, and each has a small D on it.

Walk-in mint tours had been halted indefinitely for security reasons; and individuals were required to arrange tours at least 3 weeks in advance with their congressional representatives. It is hoped that walk-in visitors will be allowed in the future; call or check www.usmint.gov for up-to-date information.

Fat City
9670 W. Coal Mine Ave. • Littleton, CO 80123 • 303.972.4344
This 140,000-square-foot indoor entertainment mall, completely renovated in 2000, bills itself as "bowling reinvented," with exotically designed balls (Day-Glo and bloodshot-eyeball motifs), black lighting, and special effects. Activities for adults as well as kids include 40 lanes of bowling, minigolf, Laser Tag, roller-skating, 20 100-inch TVs, a large video arcade with virtual-reality games and rides, billiards, a restaurant, and a martini bar.

The Wynkoop
1634 18th St • Denver, CO 80202 • 303.297.2700
Denver's first brew pub and presenter of the Beerdrinker of the Year Award. There's fanstastic food, homemade beer, pool, darts and tabletop shuffleboard. There's a comedy club right downstairs, and you can even book a banquet for up to two hundred. They offer tours every Saturday between 1 and 5pm.

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