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An unusual geological feature towers over the remains of a dark episode in United States history.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

This unique collection collects pieces of art etched into thin pieces of stone.

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

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

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

This early 20th-century rural drinking fountain provides water for both horses and humans.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.