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A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

This massive and unusual rock formation near Okotoks is the world's largest known glacial erratic.

Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.

These huge glacial erratics are humorously named after a much much smaller bird.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

Drift through decades of high desert music history at this funky hometown museum.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

A remarkably well-preserved stage stop from the late 19th century in a remote part of Nevada.

An unusual double cinder cone with a bent oval crater, in the Lunar Crater Volcanic Field.

The rocks exposed at Valley of Fire State Park also occur in a much less known but equally spectacular area a few miles to the southwest.

This subterranean treasure trove is said to contain a motorcycle, a Chevy, and a teal leisure suit.

A replica of a fort built from a frontier town's mass hysteria in the face of false reports of impending Native American violence.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

This roadside park filled with unusual statues is on the grounds of an abandoned railway station.

The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.

A preserved relic of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and a center of Swedish American Culture.

This historic early-20th-century building still boasts some of its original features.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

The oldest house in Lindsborg, Kansas, includes some fascinating inscriptions.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

This stone, said to have once been a young woman, is sacred to the Dakota and Lakota nations.

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.