"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

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

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

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

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

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

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

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

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

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

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 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.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.