The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

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

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

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

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

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

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

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

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.