The metal bird, nicknamed "Sandy," stands nearly 40 feet tall and is an homage to the birds that migrate through North Dakota every year.

This 19th century Sioux City candy company is the home of the Twin Bing, a historic, chocolate-covered treat.

America's first National Historic Landmark is a 100-foot tall obelisk and gravesite dedicated to the only casualty of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

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

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

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

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

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

Once a thriving town of 100, Argonne was abandoned around 1970.

This soaring sculpture and Sioux Falls landmark represents the leap of faith taken to make one's dreams come true.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

This plaque marks the spot where the first crossing guards helped get kids safely to school.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

This 85-year-old fireplace in an urban woodland is dedicated to a poet who recognized the beauty of a tree.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

This statue of Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks immortalizes one of the greatest moments in American sports history.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.