A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.

A crumbling ghost town on the South Dakota prairie.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

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

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

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

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

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

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

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

The formidable fowl can be found standing near an isolated hiking path.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

A working ranch doubles as a sustainable hub for world-renowned classical music and large-scale sculptures.

Operational for less than a year, this mill produced more than 11,000 tons of chrome concentrate in its short lifespan.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

An unusual geological feature towers over the remains of a dark episode in United States history.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.