A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.