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

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Minnehaha County courthouse played host to sensational public divorce trials.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

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

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

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

During World War II, over 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in this camp in the Idaho desert.

One of the "twins" in these falls on the Snake River was sacrificed for hydropower generation in the 1930s.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

The only bridge in the United States where BASE jumping is legal without a permit year-round.