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

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

Birdhouses, peacocks, animal sculptures, and a graveyard are all found along this eclectic nature trail.

Despite being dead since the 1970s, this Canadian tree is kept upright and intact by adoring locals.

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

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

Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

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

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

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

A classic carnival ride that was carved to be untouchable.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

Every four years, millions of salmon fill a river so densely that its waters appear deep crimson.

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

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

The secluded site of a 1943 plane crash and amazing rescue is only accessible by hiking through the woods.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

This large maar crater in Oregon is the bigger brother to Hole in the Ground.

The "Crow Boat" of Kootenay Lake, sold for a dollar and now on display as "the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler."

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.