An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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

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

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

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

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

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

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

This sprawling building built in 1890 was one of Minnesota’s earliest and largest mental health facilities.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

Its collection contains relics from the devastating disaster that set the town ablaze.

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

Where you can photograph wild black bears without worrying about becoming dinner.