Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.

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

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

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

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."

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

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

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

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

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

This small town bank is very aware of its name thank you very much.

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

Stand at the point where the two mightiest rivers in the United States converge.