A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

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

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

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

The lowest point in South Dakota and the source of the Minnesota River.

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

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

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

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

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

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

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