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

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

This Great Plains museum pays tribute to both the prosperity and tragedy of the North American fur trade.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

The remains of an early 1900s dude ranch that operated until the 1970s.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

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

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

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

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

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.