Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

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

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

Take a leisurely ride on a 1906 cable car or a 1907 steam locomotive.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

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

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.