Places CuriousMichele Wants to Go

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

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

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

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

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

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

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

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

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

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

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

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.