High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

A local museum honors Wheeler native Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

Get your gift of the gab on Route 66.

The man who wasn't there.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

During World War II, over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in this camp in the Idaho desert.

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

The only bridge in the United States where BASE jumping is legal without a permit year-round.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

A memorial to the most decisive Native American victory of the Plains Indian War.

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.