The National Atomic Testing Museum is one of the strangest museums in the American West. It sits just a few miles from the bright lights of the Las Vegas Strip. Inside, visitors find real Geiger counters, atomic bomb casings, underground test equipment, and stories from the Cold War. For decades, southern Nevada was the center…
Esther Hobart Morris lived in a rough mining town in Wyoming at a time when women were expected to stay quiet and remain at home. Still, in 1870, Esther Hobart Morris became the first woman in the United States to serve as a justice of the peace. Her appointment shocked many people across America. Newspapers…
Idaho doesn’t look like the moon. Except in one odd corner of the state…where it does. Craters of the Moon National Monument is in south-central Idaho. It is a vast field of black lava, twisted rock, and deep caves. Astronauts once trained here. Scientists still scratch their heads about it. And almost no one outside…
