A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

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

Blackfoot petroglyphs of southern Alberta which date back as far as 7000 B.C.

This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.

The famous 102-year-old circus elephant was struck and killed by lightning.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

This small museum is home to some of the oldest and best-preserved dinosaur specimens found in Montana.

An apocalyptic seismic event creates a deadly chain reaction that ends with a 6-mile long lake developing within weeks.

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

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

A metal menagerie fills the yard of this museum and gallery, the work of Montana artist Bill Ohrmann.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

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.

Operational for less than a year, this mill produced more than 11,000 tons of chrome concentrate in its short lifespan.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

A classic theatre located along a desolate Montana road.

The highest point in Montana is as rugged and singular as the state itself.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

This museum, established in Butte's lost Chinatown, celebrates Asian-American culture in what was once the world's largest mining camp.