Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.

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

One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.

This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

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

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

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

A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

The highest point in Montana is as rugged and singular as the state itself.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.