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What if the cure for all that ails you was as simple as repeated exposure to low-dose radon?

Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.

A once celebrated industrial wonder now lurks in a quiet corner of Flathead Lake.

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

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

This museum is dedicated to telling the story of dinosaurs from a creationist perspective. 

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

A classic mystery spot complete with spots that are said to make you shrink or grow when you stand on them.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

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

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.