A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

Images chiseled into the basalt here date back an estimated 300 years.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The now-serene site of the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America.

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

This abandoned mine offers a glimpse at what life was like for those who came to Alaska seeking Gold Rush riches.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

Commemorating the lives of a renowned humorist and a famed aviator who died in a plane crash in northern Alaska.

This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.

Tour a Cold War-era U.S. military missile launch site in Anchorage.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.