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

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

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, but has never been to New York.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

A tiny nondenominational church harkens back to the days of the first homesteaders in the region.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.