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Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

This Nebraska museum was once the smallest courthouse in America.

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

When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

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

This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

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.

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

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

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

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

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

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

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.