The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.

The secluded site of a 1943 plane crash and amazing rescue is only accessible by hiking through the woods.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

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

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

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

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.