Places Seabiscuit Wants to Go

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

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

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

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

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.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

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

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

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

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

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

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

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

In the midst of a residential town in Washington exists a property saturated with one man's artistic creations.

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.

Walking by this fence is like strolling along a portal to various fictional worlds.