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

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

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

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

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

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

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

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

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

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

The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

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

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

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."