Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

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

An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

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

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

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

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

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

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

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.