The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

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

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

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

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

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

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

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

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

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

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

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

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."