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

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

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

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

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

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

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

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

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

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

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

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

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

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

The limestone composition of this spectacular arch makes it unique to the region.

Two well-preserved charcoal kilns survive in a remote part of eastern Nevada.

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

The second seat of Nye County, still mostly a ghost town, has become a magnet for those looking to live "away from it all."

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.