This 4,000-acre restored grassland in northern Illinois is home to a range of native flora and fauna, from clovers to plovers to a herd of bison.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

One of America's largest retail chains got its start in one of its most remote rural destinations.

This town is home to the world’s largest arch constructed entirely of elk antlers.

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

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

The museum isn't crazy, it's a museum of Sweet Grass County history complete with a replica Norwegian stabbur.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

One of the "twins" in these falls on the Snake River was sacrificed for hydropower generation in the 1930s.

The only bridge in the United States where BASE jumping is legal without a permit year-round.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

This underground cave located in the most barren reaches of Idaho is filled with ice year-round.

During World War II, over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in this camp in the Idaho desert.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.