Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

A ghost town in a remote corner of Oregon hosts a touching tribute to Sacagawea’s son.

This work of art by Matthew Mazzotta resides in this park dedicated to the first black legislator in Idaho.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

Mine your own precious stones.

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

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

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

This giant tower beacon was a key navigation tool for pilots delivering mail amid the night skies.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.