Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

A stone pillar commemorates the surrender of the extraordinary Apache leader.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

Visitors to this public park will also find the ruins of an old western fort.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

This memorial pays homage to Pueblo's four Medal of Honor recipients.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

The perfect spot for a picnic, right next to a giant ballistic missile.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

Operational for less than a year, this mill produced more than 11,000 tons of chrome concentrate in its short lifespan.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

According to local legend, elderly villagers were once brought to this hill and left to die.

Crystal clear, drinkable mountain spring water by the side of the road.

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

The "Crow Boat" of Kootenay Lake, sold for a dollar and now on display as "the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler."

Star garnets are so rare that you can only find them in two places on Earth—here, you can dig for them.

Cross the Continental Divide through an old railroad tunnel, and ride back to the top on a shuttle.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway.