This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

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

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

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

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

One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

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

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

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

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

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

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

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

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

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.