This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

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

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

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

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

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

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

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'