A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

A Victorian garden in a harsh climate at the border of the prairies and foothills of the Canadian Rockies.

The New Central Library is a masterpiece of contemporary architecture in the midst of downtown Calgary.

A herd of colorfully painted bovine statues can be found in the middle of "cowtown."

This massive and unusual rock formation near Okotoks is the world's largest known glacial erratic.

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

Despite being dead since the 1970s, this Canadian tree is kept upright and intact by adoring locals.

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

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

This combination shop and museum is filled with curious items and artifacts.

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.