The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

A roadside attraction filled with an astounding array of gloriously wacky vehicles.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

This historic stone barn is the former home of legendary cattleman Charles “Lonesome Dove” Goodnight.

This marker identifies the location where three states converge.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.