Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

The source of America's longest river is also a historical landmark and the start of a famous nude run.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

In 1909, the steepest and most difficult piece of track on the Canadian Pacific Railway was replaced with a series of spiralling tunnels cut into the mountains.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

This massive and unusual rock formation near Okotoks is the world's largest known glacial erratic.

Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.

A majestic hotel that also stands as a historic relic.

One of the largest collections of carriages, buggies, and wagons in the world.

Built to supply water to farmers in Alberta, this was once was the world's longest elevated concrete structure.

Blackfoot petroglyphs of southern Alberta which date back as far as 7000 B.C.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

This remote Montana battlefield is the site of the Nez Perce Flight of 1877.

This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.

Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.

Wally is the 26-foot-long fiberglass emissary for Garrison, North Dakota, one of the self-proclaimed (and hotly contested) Walleye Capitals of the World.