One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

This was the first ever National Lakeshore, established in 1966.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Only the original archway remains from the building where a false cry of "fire" started a panic that claimed more than 70 lives on Christmas Eve in 1913.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

The metal bird, nicknamed "Sandy," stands nearly 40 feet tall and is an homage to the birds that migrate through North Dakota every year.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

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

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

From this scenic rockface, you can still see the paths Western pioneers followed.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

A monument to the egos of two railroad magnates that fell into decline along with their careers.

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.