A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.

This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

You can stand in three U.S. states at once.

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

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

A humble reconstruction of the rather lively former capitol building.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Minnehaha County courthouse played host to sensational public divorce trials.

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

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