UNESCO World Heritage Site- Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam

The Minaret of Jam probably marks the site of the ancient city of Firuzkuh, the capital of the Ghurid dynasty that ruled Afghanistan and parts of northern India, from Kashgar to the Persian Gulf, in the 12th and 13th centuries. ...

Old Faithful, Riverside, and Grand Geysers

The Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, has the largest concentration of geysers and other geothermal features in the world, including Old Faithful, Riverside Geyser, Grand Geyser, and Morning Glory Pool.

John Coulter sent back the first published account ...

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is North America’s first National Forest. On March 1 1872, President Ulysses S Grant signed a bill making Yellowstone the first federally protected landmass in the United States. The park boundaries span an area larger than the ...

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is North America’s first National Forest. On March 1 1872, President Ulysses S Grant signed a bill making Yellowstone the first federally protected landmass in the United States. The park boundaries span an area larger than the ...

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is North America’s first National Forest. On March 1 1872, President Ulysses S Grant signed a bill making Yellowstone the first federally protected landmass in the United States. The park boundaries span an area larger than the ...

N.P. Dodge Memorial Park

Today N. P. Dodge Memorial Park might appear simply to be land set aside in Omaha, Nebraska for ball fields, water sports, and camping, but the area has a deeper history. About two months after their journey began, Lewis and ...

Lewis and Clark State Park

On the 4th of July of 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition stopped at an oxbow lake created by the Missouri River in present day Rushville, Missouri. The explorers dubbed it Gosling Lake due to the number of young waterfowl ...

Grand Teton National Park

The Lewis and Clark expedition launched seventy years of scientific survey expeditions across the United States. Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the location of Grand Teton National Park, was first explored in 1860. In 1853, Congress saw a need for a transcontinental ...

Wall Drug

Get a soda. Get a root beer. Turn the next corner. Just near to highway 16 & 14. Free ice water. Wall Drug.

On the northern edge of the South Dakota Badlands, in December 1931, in the midst of the ...

Stump Island

On June 10th and 11th, 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition camped near Stump Island or Sheeco Island. Chicot is French for stump. Clark described the site in his journal as “the island covered in stumps.” The expedition planned to ...