Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

In 1847, Brigham Young climbed this hill to survey the Salt Lake Valley and saw a fine place to build a city.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

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

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

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

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.