Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

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

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

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

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.