This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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