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

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

This 19th-century religious artwork was once highly controversial—because it was donated to the church by a divorcee.

Once a thriving town of 100, Argonne was abandoned around 1970.

A crumbling ghost town on the South Dakota prairie.

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

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

The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.

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

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

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

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.

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

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

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

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

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

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.