The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A land of debatable treasure.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

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

It is the only marker for one of the most famous hate crimes in American history. There are no other memorials for him in the entire state.

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

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

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

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

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

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, this park remembers the famous raid of General Francisco “Pancho” Villa and his soldiers.

A mecca of Mexican art and cuisine just over the border.

These unique volcanic rock formations offer the perfect opportunity to camp and hike.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.