Places maccasimmons Wants to Go

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

An unusual geological feature towers over the remains of a dark episode in United States history.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

The famous 102-year-old circus elephant was struck and killed by lightning.

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

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Forever immortalized in concrete, this Simpsons etching was crafted by show creator Matt Groening.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.