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

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

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

This park straddling the United States-Canadian border has been a symbol of peace since 1932.

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A rim-made reptile in North Dakota.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

The world's tallest turtle riding the world's largest snowmobile.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.