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A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

Population: 1.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

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

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

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.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

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