Places NiftyChick Wants to Go

Some 46,000 years ago, a volcanic eruption led to a flooding event that carved this short canyon with steep vertical walls.

During World War II, over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in this camp in the Idaho desert.

Cross the Continental Divide through an old railroad tunnel, and ride back to the top on a shuttle.

This Idaho state park boasts the tallest single-structured sand dune in North America.

This U.S. natural reserve is an ancient spiritual place and rock climber’s paradise.

The only bridge in the United States where BASE jumping is legal without a permit year-round.

Star garnets are so rare that you can only find them in two places on Earth—here, you can dig for them.

Idaho’s largest, deepest limestone cave is known for its quirky rock formations and bat population.

New Plymouth, Idaho is the only U-shaped town in the United States.

This work of art by Matthew Mazzotta resides in this park dedicated to the first black legislator in Idaho.

One of the "twins" in these falls on the Snake River was sacrificed for hydropower generation in the 1930s.

An impressive waterfall nestled in the cliffs of Idaho's Snake River Canyon.

This underground cave located in the most barren reaches of Idaho is filled with ice year-round.

This combination shop and museum is filled with curious items and artifacts.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

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

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

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

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

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

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