Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

The World's Largest Bull.

A number of gruesome unsolved murders have turned this simple home into a morbid tourist trap.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

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

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

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

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

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

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

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

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

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

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.