A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.

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

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.

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

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

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

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

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

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

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

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

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

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

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

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