No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

The world's largest mineral hot springs is home to a herd of bison, a free public bath house, beautiful mineral formations, and a terrifying swinging bridge.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

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

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The start of the group that straightened the teeth of a nation.

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

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.

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

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