Examine the impact of the horse on Great Plains culture through exhibits on ranching, rodeo, and the Native American way of life.

A museum showcasing the life of "Buffalo Bill"

A historic jail preserves etchings from over a century of incarcerated people in a town with a rough and tumble past.

This museum and former department store is home to the largest collection of A.R. Mitchell art in the world.

This historic stone barn is the former home of legendary cattleman Charles “Lonesome Dove” Goodnight.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

A short tunnel built straight through a magmatic dike.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

From 135 feet high riders plunge down the world's tallest freestanding body slide at 65 mph.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

One of the largest open-pit copper mining operations in the entire country.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.