Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

What do a giraffe, an elephant, and reasonably priced steaks have in common? This roadside restaurant filled with exotic taxidermy.

A fascinating collection of art made from petrified wood and fossils by two octogenarian twin brothers.

This Nebraska museum was once the smallest courthouse in America.

This Great Plains museum pays tribute to both the prosperity and tragedy of the North American fur trade.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

Other-worldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

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

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

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

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

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

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

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

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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

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

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

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.