Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

This 20-foot-tall sculpture is in honor of the herd of bighorn sheep that call Radium Hot Springs home.

Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.

Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

A standalone wonder amid the prairie badlands of southeastern Alberta.

The world's largest moose statue is located (where else?) in Canada.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

A dazzling display of lights and crystals.

The world’s first museum dedicated to exploring human rights unleashed a wave of controversy.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

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

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

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

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

The world's largest Holstein cow.