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A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A little-known memorial to servicemen and nurses killed in the line of duty during the First World War.

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

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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

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

A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants