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The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

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

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

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

This landmark church at the Flathead Reservation mission features 58 ceiling and wall frescoes painted by the mission's cook.

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

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

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

This family-owned diner has been slinging chili dogs since 1940.