A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

The former home of the "Mother of Father's Day."

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

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

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

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

A classic carnival ride that was carved to be untouchable.

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

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

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

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

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

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.

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

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

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

The famous 102-year-old circus elephant was struck and killed by lightning.

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