Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

This large, castle-like structure is hidden amid the mountains on the grounds of the Utah State Hospital.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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

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

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

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

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

The cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

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

Once a thriving town of 100, Argonne was abandoned around 1970.