Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

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

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

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

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.

Mennes invented the tags we all place annually upon our license plates, and his story is told frankly and in full upon his headstone.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

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

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.

Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

The highest point in Montana is as rugged and singular as the state itself.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.