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The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.

Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

Originally conceived as part of a proposed Arizona State Capitol building in the 1950s, this structure built in 2004 stands as a monument to the architect's legacy.

Pick up a kebab and a credenza at this unique combination furniture store and café.

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.

Anyone can control this glittery light installation with just a phone call.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

In the foothills of the lesser Caucasus, a centuries-old fortress still stands.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Order “Proletariat’s Cutlet” at this communist-themed restaurant allegedly once visited by Lenin.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.