Teton Flood Museum, Idaho

Also known as the Museum of Rexburg, this is a local history museum, remarkable primarily for its display on the Teton Dam failure. The Teton Dam, a 305-foot high earthen dam, broke in 1976, four years after it was built on the Teton River, releasing 250,000 acre-feet of water on several communities downstream. Workers who were addressing leaks found on the dam at the time of the failure, fled for their lives when the dam began to break up. 11 people lost their lives, and the towns of Rexburg, Wilford, Sugar City, Salem and Hibbard were severely damaged.