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Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Minnehaha County courthouse played host to sensational public divorce trials.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

From 135 feet high riders plunge down the world's tallest freestanding body slide at 65 mph.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Remnants of a 4th-century church with vivid medieval frescoes and ancient sarcophagi hide beneath this old basilica.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

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

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

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

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

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

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

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