Places SemiruralYeti Wants to Go

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.

The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

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

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

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

During World War II, over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in this camp in the Idaho desert.

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

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

One of the "twins" in these falls on the Snake River was sacrificed for hydropower generation in the 1930s.

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

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

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

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

This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.

Birdhouses, peacocks, animal sculptures, and a graveyard are all found along this eclectic nature trail.

This work of art by Matthew Mazzotta resides in this park dedicated to the first black legislator in Idaho.

These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.

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