Places hopemch Wants to Go

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

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

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

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

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

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

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

A Christian-themed amusement park and complex rocked by scandals.

The final resting place of the Seminole Indian chief who fought against government occupation in Florida.

Legend has it the mill owner's daughter, Mary Musgrove, helped a Patriot soldier hide behind these falls.

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.