Boise, Idaho
Big Idaho Potato Hotel
When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.
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Boise, Idaho
When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.
Melba, Idaho
Birdhouses, peacocks, animal sculptures, and a graveyard are all found along this eclectic nature trail.
Nampa, Idaho
A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
Idaho City, Idaho
A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.
New Plymouth, Idaho
New Plymouth, Idaho is the only U-shaped town in the United States.
Island Park, Idaho
A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.
Dubois, Idaho
This giant tower beacon was a key navigation tool for pilots delivering mail amid the night skies.
Leadore, Idaho
These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.
Leadore, Idaho
A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.
Stanley, Idaho
See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.
Salmon, Idaho
An Idaho legend carved out a cave village with his own two hands.
McCall, Idaho
The secluded site of a 1943 plane crash and amazing rescue is only accessible by hiking through the woods.
Cottonwood, Idaho
Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.
Wallace, Idaho
It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.
Wallace, Idaho
After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.
Wallace, Idaho
This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.
Wallace, Idaho
This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.
Glendive, Montana
This museum is dedicated to telling the story of dinosaurs from a creationist perspective.
Glendive, Montana
The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.
Nashua, Montana
This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.
Fishtail, Montana
A working ranch doubles as a sustainable hub for world-renowned classical music and large-scale sculptures.
Red Lodge, Montana
Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.
Cameron, Montana
A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.
Three Forks, Montana
For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.