Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

The visitor center at Colorado State University-Pueblo, the former University of Southern Colorado (and prior to that, Pueblo Junior College), in Pueblo

The visitor center and pathway to the Vore Buffalo Jump, a sinkhole and archeological site in Crook County, Wyoming

The Upshur County Public Library in Buckhannon, West Virginia

The Weston, West Virginia, Masonic Temple

The West Virginia Governor's Mansion in Charleston

The Wells Log House, built in 1788 by Alexander Wells on Washington Street in Buffaloe, Virginia (now Wellsburg, West Virginia)

The Western Maryland Railway Station in Elkins, West Virginia

The West Virginia Capitol in Charleston

The Wetzel County Courthouse in New Martinsville, West Virginia

The Whispering Pines Motel, a classic mid-20th-Century cluster of mountain cabins in Estes Park, the eastern entrance to Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park

The Wood County Courthouse in Parkersburg, West Virginia

The Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun, also known as Will Rogers Shrine, a commemorative tower and chapel on Cheyenne Mountain high above Colorado Springs, Colorado

The world's largest hot springs pool was attraction enough for a century at the Glenwood Hot Springs in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, but all sorts of slides and chutes and water courses were then added to diversity visitors' enjoyment

The Withrow-Montgomery House in Lewisburg, West Virginia, built in 1818 by John Weir for James Withrow, who ran a prosperous tannery nearby

The William Post Mansion, also known as the Post Mansion Inn, is a historic home in Buckhannon, West Virginia

There's typically lots of sunshine and blue sky in Mancos, in Southwest Colorado. All the better to see the details of the town's signature street signs

The Wyoming Territorial Prison state historic site in Laramie, Wyoming

These would be interesting and impressive Rocky Mountain peaks just outside Aspen, Colorado, if they weren't a slight camera turn to the right from what is considered one of the, if not the most-coveted photographic spot in Colorado: two jagged, bare-rock peaks called the Maroon Bells Physical descr

There's no need to avert your eyes. The accident in the making at this barn, next to Sharp's Country Store in Slaty Fork, an unincorporarted town in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, is a mirthful illusion

These two old barns near Dunmore in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, look like parent and child

The WVU Coliseum, a 14,000-seat multi-purpose arena located on the Evansdale campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia

The Wyman Hotel in Silverton, the seat of San Juan County, Colorado, a legendary silver-rush town of the 19th Century and, at 9,313 feet above sea level, one of America's highest cities

The Wyoming Welcome Center near Beulah, just across the South Dakota border

This is Cheyenne, a seven-year-old female bald eagle, who appeared (here in front of a painting backdrop) as part of a presentation by HawkQuest, a nonprofit environmental-education organization that employs birds of prey such as hawks, eagles, and falcons, at a Colorado Springs Native American Inte

This is Cheyenne, a seven-year-old female bald eagle, who appeared as part of a presentation by HawkQuest, a nonprofit environmental-education organization that employs birds of prey such as hawks, eagles, and falcons, at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter Tribal Powwow and festival in that ce

This attractive house has also served as a pharmacy and a funeral home in New Cumberland, West Virginia

This is not an eye test. It's a creatively decorated storage shed outside Sharp's Country Store in Slaty Fork, an unincorporarted town in Pocahontas County, West Virginia

This is NOT an ice-cream cone with windows. Otherwise, we're not exactly sure what purpose this conical structure in Marlinton, West Virginia serves. A playhouse? Storage shed? It's a roadside curiosity for sure

This building in the distressed Appalachian Mountains town of Kimball in southern West Virginia is unusual for two reasons: The town's World War Memorial, it is one of a few large memorials, as opposed to statues, to those who served in World War I, which its builders assumed would be THE one and on

This seeping rock pile, along the main highway above Durango, Colorado, has a name. It's the "Pinkerton Hot Springs," whose waters were first discovered in the early 1870s by dairy farmer James Harvey Pinkerton

This old wagon looks like it's weathering in a field. But it's positioned on the partially grass-covered roof of a garage at "Sunridge," the last home of Hollywood actor Dennis Weaver and his wife, Gerry, in Ridgway, a town in rural Ouray County, Colorado

This looks much like a movie-theater marquee, but this sign in little Julesburg, Colorado, on the Nebraska border, is attached to a commercial building that doesn't show films

This place does NOT fuel the international space station in low Earth orbit. It's a cleverly designed terrestrial gasoline station, whose sign lights brightly at night in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

This planing mill and a larger, steel lumber mill next door, just down the track from the Cass Scenic Railroad station in Cass, were once symbols symbol of the economic power of timber and the lumber business in early 21st-Century West Virginia

This looks like a factory building, but it was the old hay barn in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Cass within what is now (2015) the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia

Ticket booth and entrance of the Keith-Albee Theatre in downtown Huntington, West Virginia

Three grouped stained-glass windows at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wheeling, West Virginia

Three of the original illuminated signs in Neon Alley, a public-art project in Pueblo, Colorado, devised by sign collector Joseph Koncilja

Thurmond, a mostly deserted old Appalachian coal town in West Virginia

Tino Trujillo, left, of Pueblo, Colorado, and Skuya Fast Horse of Fort Frances, Ontario, who were among the participants at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city

Tombstone in cemetery, Ouray, Colorado

Toms Shash, a Warm Springs Apache, photographed at a gathering of North American Native People in Pueblo, Colorado

Toms Thundershock Monroe, a Navajo, Tiwa, and Choctaw descendant, carries a prayer staff honoring Armando E. Trujillo, a former Bataan "Death March" survivor in World War Two; and Ret. U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Manuel Valenzuela, a member of the Jumano Native American Tribe, holds Mr. Trujillo's ve

Tomas Thundershock Monroe of Pueblo, Colorado, who described his tribe as "Apache Choctaw Navajo mix," was among the participants at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city

Tony Catanese, owner of the Camp Bed and Breakfast Inn in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in his Pug T-shirt and with his pug dog, Blossom

Tracks of the Durango-Silverton narrow-gauge railroad in Silverton, the seat of San Juan County, Colorado, a legendary silver-rush town of the 19th Century and, at 9,313 feet above sea level, one of America's highest cities

Trail at the site of the Cheat Summit Fort, atop Cheat Mountain in the Monongahela National Forest of Randolph County, West Virginia

A train snow plow, which might as easily be called a train snow PROW, sits idle on a summer day in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. But it gets plenty of action in Colorado's snowy Rocky Mountains that surround the town

Train depot in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Cass within what is now (2015) the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia

Trees abound in this scene near the settlement of Hermosa, on the winding road between Durango and Silverton in La Junta County, Colorado But none of them appears to be shading this isolated mountain cabin

Trees abound in this scene near the settlement of Hermosa, on the winding road between Durango and Silverton in La Junta County, Colorado But none of them appear to be shading these mountain cabins

Trinity Episcopal Church in Morgantown, West Virginia

Trinity Episcopal Church in Huntington, West Virginia

Trout stream at the Ranch A Education Center, a complex of buildings, now owned by the State of Wyoming, near Beulah, Wyoming

Tubing on the Yampa River in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Twelve-year-old Bryan St. Clair, a member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin

Two adjacent, similarly styled and painted old barns in the unincorporated town of Sweet Springs in extreme southeast West Virginia

Tyrannasauras Rex dinosaur skeleton at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in Denver, Colorado

Utah. Hovenweep ruins

Vedauwoo Turtle Rock, a towering pile of weathered Sherman Granite that is the cornerstone of a 3.2-mile trail in the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest between Laramie and Cheyenne on the Albany-Laramie county line in Wyoming