Nederland: Home of the "Frozen Dead Guy!"

I agree with Dennis from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia when he says to his sister, who's hounding him to look at her scenic photos, "I don't want to look at your pictures unless I'm in them or someone's having sex." Obviously I'm not a big fan of scenic photos either, but what better place to take them than Nederland, Colorado.

This lil' artist's town is nestled in the mountains 20 minutes west of Boulder and 1.5 hours from Denver. This is the home of Grandpa Bredo Morstoel, more commonly known as the "Frozen Dead Guy." He died in 1989 and was cryogenically frozen in hopes of potential immortality. Typically, cryogenic patients are kept frozen via liquid nitrogen, but due to budget constaints Morstoel was kept on dry ice in a garden shed behind the home of his wife and grandson in Nederland.

Eventually, Morstoel's wife and grandson were evicted for having no plumbing or electricity. Afraid that Morstoel would inevitably melt, they made their family secret public. An emergency town meeting was held, but no one could find an ordinance stating why they couldn't have a frozen body on their private property. Now, of course, they've made it illegal, but they've allowed "Frozen Dead Guy" to stay. In fact, Nederland celebrates "Frozen Dead Guy Days" every Winter. The festival includes a tour of "Frozen Dead Guy's" shed, a "Frozen Dead Guy" look alike contest, a polar plunge, and coffin races.