Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

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.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

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

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.