Magic Town, Colorado Springs

The Old Colorado City(in Colorado Springs) is a alluring city that maintains a historical flavor. It has a hidden treasure build by a great sculptor Michael Garman called 'Magic Town'. The 3,000 square-foot miniature city which many people pass unnoticed is the main attraction here and worth a visit.

While walking through the street of Old Colorado city, my colleague stopped me and said "wait a minute you got to see this". We entered a sculpture shop and my colleague went to the counter to buy tickets. I wondered why do we need tickets to enter a sculpture shop. Later he explained me that this is a miniature city that includes many detailed sculptures and cityscapes. A small entrance lead us to Magic town, everything here is scaled to one sixth of the original size. There are lot of handcrafted buildings, alleyways, sidewalks including all kinds shops, galleries, theaters and everything that you can find in a city. It is a marvelous experience to find each and every details in the sculptures. There are hotels, pubs, barbershops, tattoo parlor, dental clinic, apartments, movie theater, gym and more. The details of these sculptures are extraordinary and everything is portrayed here - from the tattoo in human sculpture skin to details of garbage in the trash. Apart from these details, we can find the scenes in sidewalks and alleyways change and that makes this town "magical". Using wonderful techniques of mirror, lights and hologram the scenes through windows and alleyways switches giving us frequent surprises.

There is a scene in which person waiting in the dental clinic changes to dentist doing procedure for a person in dental chair, this is one among many scenes that changes in magic town. My colleague is a native of Colorado Springs and frequent visitor to Magic town. He said 'every time I visit this place I find something new and interesting '.

It took almost a decade for Michael Garman to build his magic town. His extraordinary talent with keen observation is portrayed in each and every sculpture here. Several hundreds of sculptures are kept for sale in the shop. Most of them are human sculptures that honor American heroes from all walks of life. Military men, Early Americans, Western and Firefighters are few among them.

The very reasonable entry fees also includes complimentary popcorn and a scavenger hunt. The place is open seven days a week. The great sculptor Michael Garman often visits his magic town and if you are lucky you can meet him in person here.