Austin, Texas
Mueller SunFlowers
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
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Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
Ingram, Texas
A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Royse City, Texas
This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Wimberley, Texas
A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Douglas, Wyoming
This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.
Shawnee, Wyoming
Population: 1.
Jeffrey City, Wyoming
This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.
Moran, Wyoming
Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.
Buford, Wyoming
One of the smallest towns in the United States.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.
Devils Tower, Wyoming
The first declared National Monument in the United States.
Choteau, Montana
Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.
Philipsburg, Montana
A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."
Great Falls, Montana
The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.
Red Lodge, Montana
Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.
Three Forks, Montana
These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.
Boulder, Montana
This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.