An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

In the 1950s, two women saved this grand theater in the Colorado mountains from demolition.

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

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

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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

Visit a church sculpted from hardened lava.

Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.

This colossal reptile celebrates the history of the now-defunct Canadian Turtle Derby.

This park straddling the United States-Canadian border has been a symbol of peace since 1932.

A rim-made reptile in North Dakota.

The U.S.' first commercial park dedicated entirely to flying drones.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

This Native American cemetery features decades-old spirit house hidden behind pine trees and moss.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.