The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

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

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

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 giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

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

Crystal clear, drinkable mountain spring water by the side of the road.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

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

"Polynesia on the Plains."

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.

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

Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

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

Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.

The famous 102-year-old circus elephant was struck and killed by lightning.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.