Rapid City, South Dakota
Rapid City Presidents
Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.
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Rapid City, South Dakota
Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.
Spearfish, South Dakota
This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.
Mitchell, South Dakota
A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.
Deadwood, South Dakota
A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Midland, South Dakota
Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.
Rapid City, South Dakota
This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Montrose, South Dakota
A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Built in 1931, this small passageway is believed to be the first modern skyway.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.
Longville, Minnesota
Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A fence constructed completely of skis on Monroe Street.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."
North St Paul, Minnesota
Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.