Just south of Colorado Springs is one of the most famous military bases in the world, but you can’t see it. It sits one mile inside of the granite Cheyenne Mountain, 2,000 feet down from the ...

Nugget, one of four meerkats in the bachelor mob at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, peers over his shoulder at visitors from inside his habitat on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette) ...

Four things to know about the complex: 1. ‘The most secure facility in world’ The bunker lies 2,000 feet under Cheyenne Mountain outside Colorado Springs, Colo.

Every day, thousands of people at Denver International Airport walk over it as they're trying to catch their flights, and they have no idea what's right under their feet.

The US blasted a warren of tunnels out of the mountain’s hard granite in the 1960s so officers of the North American Aerospace Defence Command, or NORAD, could survive a nuclear attack.

Cheyenne Mountain isn't exactly secret, though: Before 9/11, they gave public tours, and if you know someone who works there, you can supposedly still visit. A very D.U.M.B. idea ...