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This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

The secluded site of a 1943 plane crash and amazing rescue is only accessible by hiking through the woods.

This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

Along the Outback Scenic Byway, adjacent to hot springs, this human-made geothermal feature takes unexplained breaks.

A ghost town in a remote corner of Oregon hosts a touching tribute to Sacagawea’s son.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

An early 20th-century fruit warehouse home of an artistic and cultural renaissance in northeastern Washington.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.

Eat like a "buckaroo" at this remote restaurant.

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

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