Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

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

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

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

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

Over 600 acres of idyllic open grassland honor Nebraska’s georgic storyteller.

Storage units with a wartime past.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

This Nebraska town wants to double its population with plywood cut-outs of townsfolk.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

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

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

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