The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

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

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

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

This 19th century Sioux City candy company is the home of the Twin Bing, a historic, chocolate-covered treat.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.