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

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

A real-life homage to the Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell's fictional Eurovision musical duo.

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

This small, but beautiful waterfall has attracted visits from artists, composers, and two United States presidents.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Nebraska’s longest-running summer theater is a musical tribute to cowboy culture.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

Operational for less than a year, this mill produced more than 11,000 tons of chrome concentrate in its short lifespan.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

This stretch of Canadian road was named after a nickname that stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.