Conata, South Dakota
Conata
A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.
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Conata, South Dakota
A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.
Philip, South Dakota
Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.
Philip, South Dakota
A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States.Â
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Hill City, South Dakota
One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.
Keystone, South Dakota
This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.
Keystone, South Dakota
The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."
Creston, South Dakota
A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Cody, Wyoming
One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Bangkok, Thailand
At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
An archaeological site believed to be the burial place of the "mother of us all."
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
For centuries, Jeddah’s old town was a major trading port and a point of entry for Hajj pilgrims traveling by sea.
Sonoma, California
The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.