Places permatour Wants to Go

An art gallery/gift shop that feels like Tim Burton, Pee Wee Herman, and Jim Henson combined!

One of the deepest springs in Missouri.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

A blufftop prairie and limestone cliff with 30-mile views across two great rivers and prime bald eagle territory.

Montana’s first and only Alpine coaster.

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

It may no longer take overnight guests, but the Martin still makes out-of-towners feel at home—just like it has for the past century.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

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

A thousand years old and the largest of its kind in the world.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

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

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

The limestone composition of this spectacular arch makes it unique to the region.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

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

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.