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Its unique collection details the history of the state's svelte railroads.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

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

"Polynesia on the Plains."

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

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

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

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

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.

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

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

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.