This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

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

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

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

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

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.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

Dating back to the 1800s, two imposing buildings in Michigan have had countless transformations over the years.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

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.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

What do a giraffe, an elephant, and reasonably priced steaks have in common? This roadside restaurant filled with exotic taxidermy.

3,000 family pets and military animals are buried in this London graveyard.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.