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The easiest way to the highest point in Wyoming is only accessible via one hefty fee.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

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

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

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.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.