Places Annaml Wants to Go

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

Visit a church sculpted from hardened lava.

This six-building complex is the home of the world's largest steer.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

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

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

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.

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

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

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.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

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

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

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

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

This giant fiberglass cod celebrates Madison's self-proclaimed status as the U.S. capital of lutefisk.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

This soaring sculpture and Sioux Falls landmark represents the leap of faith taken to make one's dreams come true.

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

At the turn of the 20th century, the Minnehaha County courthouse played host to sensational public divorce trials.