Places engelhardus Wants to Go

You can stand in three U.S. states at once.

A pair of gargoyles peer into unsuspecting passengers at Denver’s conspiracy-packed airport.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

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

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

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

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

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

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

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

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

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

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.