Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Little Free Library in a 110-Year-Old Tree Stump
A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.
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Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.
Wallace, Idaho
This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.
Wallace, Idaho
The mayor made the declaration in 2004.
Helena, Montana
The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.
Helena, Montana
Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.
Medora, North Dakota
The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.
Glendive, Montana
The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.
Bismarck, North Dakota
Mennes invented the tags we all place annually upon our license plates, and his story is told frankly and in full upon his headstone.
Blanchard, North Dakota
This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.
Fergus Falls, Minnesota
A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.
Fergus Falls, Minnesota
This sprawling building built in 1890 was one of Minnesota’s earliest and largest mental health facilities.
Rothsay, Minnesota
The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.
Fargo, North Dakota
"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"
Cold Spring, Minnesota
After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.
Belgrade, Minnesota
This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.
Alexandria, Minnesota
America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.
St. Joseph, Minnesota
A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.
Red Wing, Minnesota
Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.
Winona, Minnesota
Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.
Columbus Junction, Iowa
A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.
Peoria, Illinois
A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.
Peoria, Illinois
A massive bur oak tree believed to be some 500 years old is the centerpiece of this quiet urban greenspace.
Lincoln, Illinois
The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.
Lincoln, Illinois
Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.