Places ashleymckane Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to all things vinegar in rural South Dakota.

A series of life-sized statues of each governor of the state of South Dakota.

One dedicated priest constructed this beautiful stone grotto by hand from 1926-1933.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

An ode to South Dakota's state fish.

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

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

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

An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.

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

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

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 first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

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

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

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

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

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

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

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

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