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

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

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.

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

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

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

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

An unusual geological feature towers over the remains of a dark episode in United States history.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Eat like a "buckaroo" at this remote restaurant.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

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

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

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

This museum, established in Butte's lost Chinatown, celebrates Asian-American culture in what was once the world's largest mining camp.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."