Vermillion, South Dakota
National Music Museum
One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.
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Vermillion, South Dakota
One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.
Belle Fourche, South Dakota
Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.
Deadwood, South Dakota
A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.
Mitchell, South Dakota
A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.
Philip, South Dakota
A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Rapid City, South Dakota
This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.
Providence, Rhode Island
Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.
Shartlesville, Pennsylvania
An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.
Lititz, Pennsylvania
Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.
Bradford, Pennsylvania
This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.
Mars, Pennsylvania
Could it have picked a better place to land?
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.
Yorklyn, Pennsylvania
An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yo, Adrian!
Reading, Pennsylvania
A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.
Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania
Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.