Villisca, Iowa
Villisca Axe Murder House
This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.
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Villisca, Iowa
This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.
Harrison, Nebraska
Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.
Ogallala, Nebraska
A fascinating collection of art made from petrified wood and fossils by two octogenarian twin brothers.
Omaha, Nebraska
An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.
Harvard, Nebraska
The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.
Lincoln, Nebraska
An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.
Omaha, Nebraska
A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.
Harrison, Nebraska
Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Lemmon, South Dakota
This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.
Vermillion, South Dakota
Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.
Rapid City, South Dakota
South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.
Deadwood, South Dakota
A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.
Garretson, South Dakota
The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.
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.
Rapid City, South Dakota
This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.
Strasburg, North Dakota
The humble beginnings of the man known for his lavish "champagne" music.
Cooperstown, North Dakota
These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.
Jamestown, North Dakota
Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.