Places zamand Wants to Go

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

The only bridge in the United States where BASE jumping is legal without a permit year-round.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

A museum dedicated to the history and art of staying clean.

This combination shop and museum is filled with curious items and artifacts.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

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

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

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

This museum, established in Butte's lost Chinatown, celebrates Asian-American culture in what was once the world's largest mining camp.

Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

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

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

A classic carnival ride that was carved to be untouchable.

This landmark church at the Flathead Reservation mission features 58 ceiling and wall frescoes painted by the mission's cook.

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

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

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

If Myrtle Beach is the mini golf capital of the world, this is its crowning glory.