Places GeneralWaffles Wants to Go

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.

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

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

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.

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

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

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

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

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

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

Once a thriving town of 100, Argonne was abandoned around 1970.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

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.

After a local English teacher visited Stratford-upon-Avon, she was inspired to create a garden and home in the Bard's honor.

A crumbling ghost town on the South Dakota prairie.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

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

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."

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

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

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