Places Lost And Glossed Wants to Go

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

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

Operational for less than a year, this mill produced more than 11,000 tons of chrome concentrate in its short lifespan.

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.

A working ranch doubles as a sustainable hub for world-renowned classical music and large-scale sculptures.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

A classic mystery spot complete with spots that are said to make you shrink or grow when you stand on them.

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

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

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.

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

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

When North America was covered in ice, this was an oasis in the frozen desert.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

The giantess welcomes travelers to a small Saskatchewan town with a traditional Slavic greeting of bread and salt.

Built after the 1991 discovery of one of the world's most complete T.rex skeletons in the nearby hills.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.