Places Mama Shotts Wants to Go

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

A once celebrated industrial wonder now lurks in a quiet corner of Flathead Lake.

The formidable fowl can be found standing near an isolated hiking path.

The famous 102-year-old circus elephant was struck and killed by lightning.

This museum is dedicated to telling the story of dinosaurs from a creationist perspective. 

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

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

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

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

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.

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

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

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