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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Seven Keys Lodge (Classic)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The world’s largest random, assorted key collection located outside Denver, CO, was inspired by a literary infatuation and includes keys to danger and memory. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/baldpate-inn-key-collection

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0:00.0

I feel like everyone has had a version of this experience. You pull open your junk drawer where you've got all these weird little bits and bobs that don't really have a purpose which you can't bear to throw away.

0:12.0

And they are in among them. There is almost always a

0:16.0

handful of mysterious keys.

0:20.0

You pick one of the keys up and you look at it and you think what does this go to?

0:28.0

And it occurs to you that probably you should throw it away.

0:32.7

You haven't used it in years.

0:34.5

Then some tiny voice in your head says,

0:36.2

no, don't throw it away.

0:38.1

Because you're gonna go to open something

0:40.2

and it's gonna be locked.

0:41.3

And you're gonna go, oh my God, where's the key?

0:43.0

And then you're going to go,

0:44.0

oh my God, I've got the key.

0:46.0

And so you put the key back in the junk drawer

0:48.0

and then you just do this again 10 years later

0:51.0

when you have definitely not figured out what that key goes to.

0:55.9

That is the story of me and my random keys I refuse to throw away.

1:11.3

But there is a place 9,000 feet above sea level in Colorado where the prevailing attitude is the more keys the merrier. At the Seven Keys Lodge they have thousands and thousands of

1:16.2

keys including some pretty fascinating historical ones.

1:20.3

So we've got the key to Frankenstein's castle.

1:23.4

And some potentially dangerous ones too.

1:27.3

We have a key to a nuclear power plant like where like nuclear

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