Rare and gorgeous birds abound in this protected wildlife sanctuary.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

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

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

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

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

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

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

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

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.