High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

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

Population: 1.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

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

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

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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

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

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

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

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

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

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

An Idaho legend carved out a cave village with his own two hands.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.