On Lookout Mountain above Golden, the grave and modest museum of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody is one of the strangest must-stops on the Front Range. Cody, the Pony Express rider, Union scout, buffalo hunter and Wild West showman who effectively invented America's myth of itself, asked to be buried with a view; from the grave site the prairie opens out to the east for a hundred miles.
The museum is a single room of Cody memorabilia — rifles, Sitting Bull's bow, posters from the touring show. Easy to combine with Red Rocks, the foothills hikes, and Golden itself.