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Built after the 1991 discovery of one of the world's most complete T.rex skeletons in the nearby hills.

See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.

This small museum is home to some of the oldest and best-preserved dinosaur specimens found in Montana.

Stay in a luxury cabin or refurbished Airstream in this former mining camp-turned-retreat.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

In 1975, a forestry worker in Arizona claimed to have been abducted by a UFO.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.

The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

Play over 120 retro arcade games and pinball machines at this throwback museum.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

The original movie set for the home of 'Star Wars' hero Luke Skywalker.