This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

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

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.

This historic Idaho island is home to a strange timeshare museum, a homemade mini-golf course, and an outhouse named Aunt Fanny.

A museum dedicated to the history and art of staying clean.

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

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

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

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

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

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

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

Orcas on display and in the water.

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.