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

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.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

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

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

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

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

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

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

At the turn of the 20th century, the Minnehaha County courthouse played host to sensational public divorce trials.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.

An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.

A museum, walk-through diorama, and library nestled under one castle-like roof.

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