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

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.

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

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

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

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

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

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

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

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

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.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.