Old Colorado City shopoldcoloradocity.com It’s not everywhere that your shopping spree comes with history and Victorian ambience. In Colorado Springs, we’re fortunate for Old Colorado City. The former hub of the Pikes Peak gold rush is now a hub for all your needs and wants plus all the things you never knew you needed or wanted. Here is an eclectic array of stores for soaps and candles, plants and fashion pieces, and, yes, the souvenirs and sweets for which tourists come. — Seth Boster Cronk Art & Curiosities cronkartco.com I’m a lifelong lover of weird stuff, and Cronk Art & Curiosities delivers. On a recent afternoon, I popped in for a hit of eye candy and ogled a bunch of live tarantulas, arthropod taxidermy, crystals, tarot cards, smudge sticks, bones and skulls, candles for spells, teas, elixirs and tinctures. And if you’re in the market to grow your gray matter, the shop also offers classes on taxidermy, witch arts and crafts, wildlife conservation, gardening and more.…