These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

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

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

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.