Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

"Polynesia on the Plains."

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

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

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

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

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

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

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

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

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

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

Unopened beer cans are left at this monument to honor the Navy men who lost their lives during a training mission.

The second seat of Nye County, still mostly a ghost town, has become a magnet for those looking to live "away from it all."

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

An ode to one of the dirtiest jobs during the construction of the Boulder Dam.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

The strongest earthquake in Nevada's recorded history left these spectacular breaks along the west front of a range in central Nevada.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

Despite the name, it's unclear if this small depression in northern Nye County was actually caused by falling space debris.

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.