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Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

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

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

The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

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

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

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

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

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

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

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

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

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

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

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

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