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

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

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

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

One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

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

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

This giant tower beacon was a key navigation tool for pilots delivering mail amid the night skies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

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

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.