These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.

This pop-culture shop also offers the chance to become part of their favorite tv show or movie.

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

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

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.

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

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.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

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

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

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.

Wally is the 26-foot-long fiberglass emissary for Garrison, North Dakota, one of the self-proclaimed (and hotly contested) Walleye Capitals of the World.

The world's tallest turtle riding the world's largest snowmobile.

This park straddling the United States-Canadian border has been a symbol of peace since 1932.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

A rim-made reptile in North Dakota.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.