Places hopemch Wants to Go

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

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

"Polynesia on the Plains."

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

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

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.