An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.

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

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

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

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

A monument to the egos of two railroad magnates that fell into decline along with their careers.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

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

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."