New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

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

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

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

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

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

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.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

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

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.