A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

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

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

Population: 1.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

A devilishly named gorge that was a sign of salvation for many pioneers.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.