Places halfLight7 Wants to Go

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

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

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

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

A lone bronze figure stands in memory of historic a 19th century land grab.

A garden full of metal sculptures that celebrate the double bass.

The largest Walleye statue in the world calls this Minnesota town home.