Places ignimbrite Wants to Go

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

Annual convention held by the largest pyrotechnic community in the world.

The humble beginnings of the man known for his lavish "champagne" music.

Only place outside China and India where two overhead DC power lines cross.

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

This museum is dedicated to telling the story of dinosaurs from a creationist perspective. 

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

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

The highest point in Montana is as rugged and singular as the state itself.

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

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

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

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

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.