Places SamWPiano Wants to Go

A colossal concrete penguin announces this Montana town as the coldest spot in America. But is it really?

What if the cure for all that ails you was as simple as repeated exposure to low-dose radon?

Crystal clear, drinkable mountain spring water by the side of the road.

A metal menagerie fills the yard of this museum and gallery, the work of Montana artist Bill Ohrmann.

This small museum is home to some of the oldest and best-preserved dinosaur specimens found in Montana.

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

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

The formidable fowl can be found standing near an isolated hiking path.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

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 giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

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

This soaring sculpture and Sioux Falls landmark represents the leap of faith taken to make one's dreams come true.

An ode to South Dakota's state fish.

One dedicated priest constructed this beautiful stone grotto by hand from 1926-1933.

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly 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.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.