This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

Built for a motel, this cartoon dino is now a symbol of the area's paleontological heritage.

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.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Giant steel and concrete dinosaurs near Route 66 invite passerbys into a mineral shop.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

The ruins of the northernmost pueblo in the Americas tell the story of a mixing of native cultures.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

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

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Is this 47.7-mile stretch of highway the longest straight road in the United States?

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

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