Places chrissyml Wants to Go

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

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

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.

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

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.

A museum, walk-through diorama, and library nestled under one castle-like roof.

An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.

The lowest point in South Dakota and the source of the Minnesota River.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.