Places pyepoud Wants to Go

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

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

This giant tower beacon was a key navigation tool for pilots delivering mail amid the night skies.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

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

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

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

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.

The secluded site of a 1943 plane crash and amazing rescue is only accessible by hiking through the woods.

This historic Idaho island is home to a strange timeshare museum, a homemade mini-golf course, and an outhouse named Aunt Fanny.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.