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

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

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

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.

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

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

Despite its extensive history, this fort saw little to no combat.

Preserving the memory of the narrow railroads that once crisscrossed the state of Maine.

One of the few institutions in the United States devoted to the art of decorative bird carving.

The last sailing lobster boat in Maine is also likely New England's first zero-emissions commercial vessel.

A gothic-styled structure that has been the location for several movies.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

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

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

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

A small park commemorates the departure of the first-ever successful transatlantic balloon voyage.

One of the largest wooden ships ever built is honored by a steel sculpture evoking her once-superlative scale.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

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

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

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