A replica of a fort built from a frontier town's mass hysteria in the face of false reports of impending Native American violence.

Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.

Visit a church sculpted from hardened lava.

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

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

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."

A metal menagerie fills the yard of this museum and gallery, the work of Montana artist Bill Ohrmann.

The former home of the "Mother of Father's Day."

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

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

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

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

Over 75 historically themed murals grace the walls of a small Washington city.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.