Places Mama Shotts Wants to Go

This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

This historic Idaho island is home to a strange timeshare museum, a homemade mini-golf course, and an outhouse named Aunt Fanny.

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.

Birdhouses, peacocks, animal sculptures, and a graveyard are all found along this eclectic nature trail.

A museum dedicated to the history and art of staying clean.

These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

An Idaho legend carved out a cave village with his own two hands.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.