Rapid City, South Dakota
Thunderhead Underground Falls
A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.
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Rapid City, South Dakota
A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.
Lovell, Wyoming
Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.
Park County, Montana
A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Island Park, Idaho
A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.
Casper, Wyoming
A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.
Casper, Wyoming
Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.
Moran, Wyoming
Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Moab, Utah
This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.
Clark County, Nevada
Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.
Supai, Arizona
This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Tucson, Arizona
The Magical World of George Phar Legler.
Tucson, Arizona
Miniature art that tells an enormous story.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.
El Paso, Texas
Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.
El Paso, Texas
Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.
Culberson County, Texas
The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.
Culberson County, Texas
Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.
Shiraz, Iran
Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.
North St Paul, Minnesota
Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.