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The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

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

"Polynesia on the Plains."

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

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

This curious headstone is labeled simply as "The Queen."

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.