This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

This larger-than-life portrait in Nevada's silver boomtown is decorated with over 3,000 silver dollars.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

The smallest country in the world.

One of the "twins" in these falls on the Snake River was sacrificed for hydropower generation in the 1930s.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.