Elaborate drama imparts an appreciation for 19th century hardships.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

The humble beginnings of the man known for his lavish "champagne" music.

The easiest way to the highest point in Wyoming is only accessible via one hefty fee.

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.

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

The highest point in Montana is as rugged and singular as the state itself.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

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

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

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

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

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.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.