The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

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

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.

An Idaho legend carved out a cave village with his own two hands.

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

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

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.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.