Places Bartender Bea Wants to Go

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

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

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

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

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

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

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

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

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

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

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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