Mark Twain once stopped at this rest station during his journey to Nevada.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

A humble reconstruction of the rather lively former capitol building.

This 'terrible lizard' was one of the world's first animatronic dinosaurs.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

Home to one of the world’s largest nutcracker collections and other historical curiosities.

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

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

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

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

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

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

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

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

The empty town of Scenic, South Dakota, is owned by a church in the Philippines.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

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

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

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

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

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

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.