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

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

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

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

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

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

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

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

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

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