A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

This cemetery is one of the last remaining traces of a drowned old Western town.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

Boise State's stadium was the first non-green football field in the world.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

The World's Largest Bull.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.