Places power2encourage Wants to Go

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

"Polynesia on the Plains."

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

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

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

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

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

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

The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.

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

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

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

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

This museum glorifies the humble potato.