Places clpartin Wants to Go

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

The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.

This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

This Nebraska museum was once the smallest courthouse in America.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

Population: 1.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

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

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

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

Where the notorious gang lived while on the run from the FBI.

This double-arched masonry highway bridge is the only structure of its kind in Minnesota.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.