A metal menagerie fills the yard of this museum and gallery, the work of Montana artist Bill Ohrmann.

This small museum is home to some of the oldest and best-preserved dinosaur specimens found in Montana.

The famous 102-year-old circus elephant was struck and killed by lightning.

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

This museum is dedicated to telling the story of dinosaurs from a creationist perspective. 

Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

A classic mystery spot complete with spots that are said to make you shrink or grow when you stand on them.

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

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

Features unique photographic collections by women of the American West and historical attractions such as a two-story outhouse.

It is the only marker for one of the most famous hate crimes in American history. There are no other memorials for him in the entire state.

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

A lifetime's accumulation of bric-a-brac and kitsch.