An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

This Native American settlement dates back to the Pueblo II period.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

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

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

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

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

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

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

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

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

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

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

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

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

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

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