Baker City, Oregon
The Great Salt Lick
A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.
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Baker City, Oregon
A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.
La Grande, Oregon
A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.
Antelope, Oregon
Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.
Mitchell, Oregon
Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.
Prineville, Oregon
This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.
John Day, Oregon
This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.
Flagstaff, Arizona
An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.
Ratlinghope, England
A quiet country churchyard holds a monument to the last known sin-eater in England.
Butte, Montana
The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.
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.
Boise, Idaho
When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.
Whitehall, Montana
The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.
Boulder, Montana
This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.
Virginia City, Montana
An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.
Salmon, Idaho
This set of hot springs also comes with fantastic views.
The Dalles, Oregon
This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.
Goldendale, Washington
A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.
Cottonwood, Idaho
Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.
Pullman, Washington
A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.
Garfield, Washington
A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.
Asotin, Washington
The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.