The largest historic preservation organization in the United States.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.

The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

Although now a decaying ruin, this stone cabin's history includes several notable figures.

An ode to one of the dirtiest jobs during the construction of the Boulder Dam.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Although it also features red, orange, and variegated cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, this state park is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbor.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.