Places adreannanorth Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

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

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

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

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

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

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

A photogenic rock-art site that is also a popular climbing and canyoneering area.

The limestone composition of this spectacular arch makes it unique to the region.

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.

This rest area is also home to a remarkable petroglyph site.

A spring and an enigmatic cabin lie in a ponderosa pine forest in the heart of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.

An unusual waterfall in the Santa Rosa Range, within the Great Basin of Nevada.

A retired schoolteacher in suburban Nevada transformed his front yard into a paleontological menagerie.