The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Montana’s first and only Alpine coaster.

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

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

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

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

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

The source of America's longest river is also a historical landmark and the start of a famous nude run.

A classic carnival ride that was carved to be untouchable.

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

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

Witness these plains giants that nearly became extinct in the late 1800s.

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.