Places SamWPiano Wants to Go

A local museum remembers one of the worst acts of anti-Chinese violence in American history.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

The tallest dam in Montana and top 10 in the country.

Thomas Francis Meagher drowned here in 1867, but whether his death was an accident or a murder, nobody knows.

A permanent open-air exhibition of stunning, and inherently American, public art.

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

The museum isn't crazy, it's a museum of Sweet Grass County history complete with a replica Norwegian stabbur.

This remote Montana battlefield is the site of the Nez Perce Flight of 1877.

This cemetery is one of the last remaining traces of a drowned old Western town.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

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

Only place outside China and India where two overhead DC power lines cross.

This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.

This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

Take a walk on Minnesota’s last historic covered bridge.

The site of Minnesota’s worst mining disaster, now reclaimed by nature.