The DRIFTLESS AREA Is Hiding Something NOBODY Talks About

Did you know a snail crawling around an Iowa hillside has a family line older than the last four Ice Ages? That there's a river in Wisconsin some geologists think is the oldest on Earth? Everyone thinks the Upper Midwest is flat, forgettable farmland. They're wrong. The Driftless Area is the one place the Ice Age glaciers went around instead of over. 12 wild facts about the corner of America the glaciers forgot. 00:00 Three impossible teasers 01:07 The land the ice refused to touch 03:03 The oldest river on the planet 04:39 The 400,000-year-old living fossil 06:36 Giant animals carved into the earth 08:02 The massacre on the riverbank 09:46 Desert and arctic on the same hill 11:20 More trout water than a lifetime 12:55 Where American conservation was born 14:34 A pocket of the 1800s still living 15:49 The biggest wine region on Earth 17:11 A landscape full of holes 18:31 The tower holding back nothing Subscribe for more of America's hidden geography.