Colfax, Washington
The Codger Pole
A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.
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Colfax, Washington
A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.
Colfax, Washington
An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.
Mullan, Idaho
A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway.Â
Wallace, Idaho
This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.
Wallace, Idaho
The mayor made the declaration in 2004.
Wallace, Idaho
This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.
Wallace, Idaho
It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.
Wallace, Idaho
After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.
Saint Maries, Idaho
Star garnets are so rare that you can only find them in two places on Earth—here, you can dig for them.
Garfield, Washington
A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.
Wiesbaden, Germany
A historic casino where Dostoyevsky is said to have lost it all on a single spin of the roulette wheel.