This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

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

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

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

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

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

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.

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