This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

New Plymouth, Idaho is the only U-shaped town in the United States.

Boise State's stadium was the first non-green football field in the world.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

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

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

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.