The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

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

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

For over a century, it has been a tradition to raise a flag at the top of this 450-foot sandstone pillar on the 4th of July.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

An ode to one of the dirtiest jobs during the construction of the Boulder Dam.

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

The 55-pound trichobezoar was removed from the stomach of a cow.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of Navajo Nation.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.