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

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

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

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

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

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

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

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

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

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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.

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

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

A little-known memorial to servicemen and nurses killed in the line of duty during the First World War.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.