Places ashleymckane Wants to Go

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.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

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

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

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

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

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

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

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

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

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

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

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

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

Bronze sculpture paying homage to Norma “Duffy” Lyon, famous for creating a life-size cow made of butter at the state fair.

A colossal watermelon slice celebrating Muscatine’s sweet agricultural heritage.

How did the 110-ton limestone statue cross the road?