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Whimsical cartoon cars suspended on posts soar over an automotive shop.

This tree has witnessed nearly 1,000 years of history.

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

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

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

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

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

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

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

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

After Havre burned down, the best place to build was under the ashes.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.