Junction City, Kansas
Buffalo Soldiers Monument
A monument celebrating the Black soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry.
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Junction City, Kansas
A monument celebrating the Black soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry.
Philip, South Dakota
A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.
Mobridge, South Dakota
The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.
Fort Yates, North Dakota
This stone, said to have once been a young woman, is sacred to the Dakota and Lakota nations.
Irving, Texas
Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.
Atlanta, Georgia
Rare and classic books by Black authors are the focus at this independent bookstore in a historic Atlanta neighborhood.
Atlanta, Georgia
Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.
Wichita, Kansas
A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.
Dallas, Texas
A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.
Dallas, Texas
A 28-exhibit museum about the history, culture, and oddities of money. Visitors stand in a cash shower, try to crack a vault, and discover what it's like to barter when no money is allowed.
Devils Tower, Wyoming
The first declared National Monument in the United States.
Sioux City, Iowa
This 19th century Sioux City candy company is the home of the Twin Bing, a historic, chocolate-covered treat.
New York, New York
A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.
New York, New York
This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.
New York, New York
Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.
New York, New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
Winona, Kansas
Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.
Keystone, South Dakota
Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.
Keystone, South Dakota
This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.
Rapid City, South Dakota
A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.
Hill City, South Dakota
One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Deadwood, South Dakota
A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.